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Name
inc - incorporate new mail
Syntax
inc [ +folder ] [ options ]
Description
Use to incorporate mail from your incoming maildrop into a folder.
Normally, incorporates new mail into your folder. If you supply a +folder argument, mail is incorporated into the named folder instead of
your
The new messages being incorporated are numbered sequentially starting with the next highest available number in the folder. If the speci-
fied (or default) folder does not exist, will ask you whether you want to create it. As the messages are processed, a listing of the new
mail is produced. See for details of the listing produced.
The folder into which messages are being incorporated will become the current folder.
If your contains a Msg-Protect: entry, the mail system will use this as the protection on the newly created messages; otherwise, it will
use the default of 0600. This means that messages created will have read and write permission for the user only. During all operations on
messages, the mail system will preserve this initially assigned protection for each message. You can also use to set a different protec-
tion on an individual message; in this case the mail system will preserve the new protection.
Note that will incorporate improperly formatted messages into your folder, inserting a blank line prior to the offending component and
printing a comment identifying the bad message.
If the entry Unseen-Sequence is present in your profile, then will add each of the newly incorporated messages to each sequence named by
the profile entry. This is similar to the Previous-Sequence (R)profile entry supported by all MH commands which take msg (R)or msgs argu-
ments. Note that will not zero each sequence prior to adding messages.
If the environment variable $MAILDROP is set, then uses it as the location of your maildrop instead of the default. If this variable is
not set, then will consult the profile entry Maildrop (R)for this information. If the value found is not absolute, then it is interpreted
relative to your Mail directory, which is usually If the value is not found, then (R)will look in the standard system location for your
maildrop. The -file (R)option will override all of these.
Options
-audit audit-file
-noaudit Keeps a record of all new mail that is incorporated. The places a line in the named audit file for each message it incorporates.
This is useful for keeping track of the volume and source of incoming mail.
This option is often set up in the file. See for more information on how to add entries to the file. If this option is added to
the it can be overridden using the -noaudit option at the command line.
-changecur
-nochangecur
Makes the first new message the current message. This is the default operation of If you want the current message to remain as
it was, use the -nochangecur option.
-file name
Incorporates mail from a named file. This is usually a file other than your maildrop. Note that the mail system will not zero
the named file unless the -truncate switch is given.
-form formatfile
Controls the format of the display produced. The output of is formatted according to the instructions in the named file. The
file must be an mhl format file; see for more information.
-format string
Controls the format of the display produced. The output of is formatted according to the instructions given by the string sup-
plied. This must be a standard format string; see for more information. If the string contains blank spaces, the whole string
must be enclosed in double quotes.
-help Prints list of the valid options for this command.
-silent
-nosilent Directs to be quiet and not ask any questions at all. This is useful for putting in the background and going on to other things.
-source file
Specifies the source from which mail is retrieved. The only value allowed is file, which is the standard ULTRIX mail system.
Additional values are supported only for use with other mail systems.
-truncate
-notruncate
Zeroes your maildrop file when mail is fetched from it. This is the default operation; your mail drop will be zeroed, unless the
-notruncate option is given.
-width Controls the width of the display produced by The default is the width of the terminal; if no value is given, prints its display
as wide as the screen allows.
The defaults for this command are:
defaults to
-noaudit
-changecur
-nosilent
-truncate if the -file option is not given, -notruncate otherwise
-width defaults to the width of the terminal
Restrictions
For this version of MH, the -source option only supports the value file. Additional values are supported for use only with other mail sys-
tems.
Examples
The following example fetches incoming mail and places it in the folder
% inc +not_read
Profile Components
Path: To determine your Mail directory
Alternate-Mailboxes: To determine your mailboxes
Folder-Protect: To set mode when creating a new folder
Maildrop: To determine the location of your maildrop
Msg-Protect: To set mode when creating a new message
and audit-file
Unseen-Sequence: To name sequences denoting unseen messages
Files
The user profile.
The system customization file.
The user's maildrop.
See Also
chmod(1), mhl(1mh), mhmail(1mh), scan(1mh), mh-mail(5mh), post(8mh)
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