MAILX(1) User Commands MAILX(1)

NAME
mailx - send and receive Internet mail

SYNOPSIS
mailx [-BDdEFintv~] [-s subject] [-a attachment ] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] [-r from-addr] [-h hops] [-A account] [-S variable[=value]] to-addr . . .
mailx [-BDdeEHiInNRv~] [-T name] [-A account] [-S variable[=value]] -f [name]
mailx [-BDdeEinNRv~] [-A account] [-S variable[=value]] [-u user]

DESCRIPTION
Mailx is an intelligent mail processing system, which has a command syntax reminiscent of ed(1) with lines replaced by messages. It is based on Berkeley Mail 8.1,
is intended to provide the functionality of the POSIX mailx command, and offers extensions for MIME, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, and S/MIME. Mailx provides enhanced fea-
tures for interactive use, such as caching and disconnected operation for IMAP, message threading, scoring, and filtering. It is also usable as a mail batch lan-
guage, both for sending and receiving mail.

The following options are accepted:

-A name
Executes an account command (see below) for name after the startup files have been read.

-a file
Attach the given file to the message.

-B Make standard input and standard output line-buffered.

-b address
Send blind carbon copies to list. List should be a comma-separated list of names.

-c address
Send carbon copies to list of users.

-D Start in disconnected mode; see the description for the disconnected variable option.

-d Enables debugging messages and disables the actual delivery of messages. Unlike -v, this option is intended for mailx development only.

-e Just check if mail is present in the system mailbox. If yes, return an exit status of zero, else, a non-zero value.

-E If an outgoing message does not contain any text in its first or only message part, do not send it but discard it silently, effectively setting the skipemp-
tybody variable at program startup. This is useful for sending messages from scripts started by cron(8).

-f [file]
Read in the contents of the user's mbox (or the specified file) for processing; when mailx is quit, it writes undeleted messages back to this file. The
string file is handled as described for the folder command below.

-F Save the message to send in a file named after the local part of the first recipient's address.

-H Print header summaries for all messages and exit.