whom(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   whom(1)

NAME

       whom - report to whom a message is addressed (only available within the message handling system, mh)

SYNOPSIS

       whom [options] [file]

OPTIONS

       Specifies  the alias file to be consulted by whom. If you have used one or more aliases in your message header, whom will consult the named
       file to find those aliases, and will print the full addresses as its output. You can reference more than one file, but each file name  must
       be  preceded by the word -alias. See mh-alias(4) for more information.  Checks that the addresses are valid.  whom makes no guarantees that
       the addresses listed as being correct are really deliverable: rather, an address being listed as correct means that at the time	that  whom
       was  run,  the  address	was  thought  to be deliverable by the transport service. For local addresses, this means that the local user does
       exist, and that the address was deliverable at the time of checking.  For network and uucp addresses, it  means	that  the  syntax  of  the
       address	is  valid.   Sets  the	draft  message	to  be the standard file draft in your Mail directory.	Specifies the folder in which whom
       searches for the draft message. The default is to use the current message in the named folder. You can select another message by using  the
       -draftmessage  option. For more information on using a draft folder, see comp(1). The -draftfolder option is often set up in your user pro-
       file; see mh_profile(4) for more information.  Specifies the draft message to be used. If  you  specify	a  folder  with  the  -draftfolder
       option, the -draftmessage option takes the number of a message in that folder. If you do not specify a folder, -draftmessage takes the name
       of a file. If you do not give an absolute pathname (one beginning with a / or or ), -draftmessage assumes that the file is located in  your
       Mail  directory.   Prints a list of the valid options to this command.  Specifies the format of the addresses to be checked. The only value
       allowed is smtp, which checks that addresses are deliverable over the standard mail system. Additional values are supported  only  for  use
       with other mail systems.

       The defaults for this command are:

       file defaults to <mh-dir>/draft -nocheck -alias /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases -mts smtp

DESCRIPTION

       The  whom  command  is  used  to expand the headers of a message into a set of addresses, and optionally to verify that those addresses are
       deliverable at that time if -check is given.

       The whom command is often invoked as one of the options offered by the whatnow program when you have finished editing a draft message.  See
       whatnow(1) for more details.

       If  you	want to run whom on a named file, you can supply a file argument. This argument allows you to specify a named file; if you want to
       run whom on an existing message, use the -draftfolder and -draftmessage options. If you do not give an  absolute  pathname  (one  beginning
       with a / or or ), whom assumes that the named file is in your current working directory.

RESTRICTIONS

       For this version, the -mts option only supports the value smtp. Additional values are supported for use only with other mail systems.

PROFILE COMPONENTS

       Path: To determine your MH directory (mh-dir)

       Draft-Folder: To find the default draft-folder

       postproc: Program to post the message

EXAMPLES

       In the following example, whom would use the current message in the +drafts folder: % whom -draftfolder +drafts
	 smith: address OK In the next example, whom searches for message 2 in the folder +drafts: % whom -draftfolder +drafts -draftmessage 2
	 davis@hostname: address OK

FILES

       The user profile.

SEE ALSO

       comp(1), mh-alias(4), post(8)

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