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readmail(1)						      General Commands Manual						       readmail(1)

NAME

       readmail - read mail from a mail folder or incoming mailbox

SYNOPSIS

       folder] [number-list|pattern]

DESCRIPTION

       The program displays messages from your incoming mailbox or a specified mail folder.

       Within the mail system (see elm(1) with no operands and optionally the or option, displays the appropriate headers and the body of the cur-
       rent message.

       With the number-list operand and no options, displays the corresponding messages and a summary of the headers from your incoming mailbox.

       With the pattern operand and no options, displays the first message that matches the pattern and a summary of the headers from your  incom-
       ing mailbox.

   Options
       supports the following options.

	      Print all messages that match
			     pattern.  If no pattern was specified, this option is ignored.

	      Use file	     folder for the operations instead of the incoming mailbox.

	      Include the entire header of the matched message or messages
			     when displaying their text.  The default is to display the and lines only.

	      Exclude all headers.

	      Put form feeds (
			     between message headers.  This is useful when printing sets of messages.

   Operands
       supports the following operands.

	      number-list    A	blank-separated  list of the ordinal locations of messages in the mail file (i.e., their "message numbers"), up to
			     25 at a time.  The character means the last message in the mail file.  Similarly, represents  every  message  in  the
			     file (i.e.,

			     The message numbers are sorted into ascending order.  Thus, produces the same output as

	      pattern	     A	string that is present in one of the messages.	This pattern can be typed in directly (no quotes) if the words are
			     separated by a single space in the actual message.  The pattern matching is case sensitive, so and  are  not  equiva-
			     lent.  Leading digits (on the first word) are not permitted; however, you can precede them with a space and quote the
			     entire string, if the space occurs in the message, as in .

EXAMPLES

       If you are using to reply to a message from within the mail system, you can insert the text of the current message with the command:

       If you define an alias similar to:

       you can use it with a program such to peruse mail as it arrives, without needing to start a mail system (see newmail(1)).

AUTHOR

       was developed by HP.

FILES

       Incoming mailbox
       Temporary file for

SEE ALSO

       elm(1), newmail(1), vi(1).

																       readmail(1)

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newmail(1)						      General Commands Manual							newmail(1)

NAME

       newmail - notify users of new mail in mailboxes

SYNOPSIS

       interval] [file-spec]...

DESCRIPTION

       The utility monitors your incoming mailbox or specified mail folders.

       The  basic  operation  is that the program checks the folders each interval seconds (default 60) and lists any new mail that has arrived in
       any of the mailboxes, indicating the sender's name, and the subject of the message.

       Without any options, runs in the background at a default interval of 60 seconds to monitor the user's incoming mailbox.	So that  they  are
       suitable for display on an already active screen, messages are prefixed with a pair of pointer characters as follows:

       If  there  is  no subject, the message is displayed.  If there is more than one folder, output lines are prefixed by the folder-name or the
       prefix string specified by file-spec.

       runs until you log out or explicitly kill it.  It can internally reset itself if the mailbox shrinks in size and then grows again.

   Options
       recognizes the following options:

	      Set the time interval between mailbox checks
			     to the value specified, in seconds.  The default is 60.

			     interval must be less than 2^32 seconds.  If it is set to less than 10 seconds, warns that such short  intervals  are
			     not recommended.

	      Run the program within the current window in the foreground
			     with a more succinct output format.

			     The output formats become:

   Operands
       recognizes the following operand:

	      file-spec      Specifies the name of a folder and an optional prefix string, in the form:

			     Metacharacters such as and indicate the folder directory.	The default is the value of the environment variable or

EXAMPLES

       Check incoming mailbox every 60 seconds:

       Check incoming mailboxes of and every 15 seconds for new messages.

       Monitor	the  incoming mailbox of user and the folder in your mail directory called Prefix all new messages in the incoming mailbox of with
       the string and the new messages in the folder with Also, monitor folder

AUTHOR

       was developed by HP.

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