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NFMAIL(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 NFMAIL(8)

NAME

       nfmail - accept mail for a notesfile

SYNOPSIS

       nfmail [ -F ] [ -s ] [ -d ] [ -m mailrc ] topic

DESCRIPTION

       Nfmail  is a mail-receiving program which takes incoming mail, parses subject and author information, and places the letter in a notesfile.
       Replies, marked by a ``Re:'' prefix in the Subject line, are placed in the notesfile as responses if a basenote with the appropriate  title
       can  be found.  Normally, the matching of titles based on the ``Re:'' prefixes is done so that a match only occurs when the basenote titles
       starts with the remainder of the string.  Thus, ``Re: this'' will match as a response of the basenote ``this is it'', but will not match  a
       basenote  titled ``see this note''.  Specify the -F option if you wish to remove the restriction that matches start at the beginning of the
       title.

       The -s option tells nfmail to strip header lines from the letter before placing it in the notesfile.  Normally, all header  information	is
       retained.   The ``Subject'', and ``From'' header lines are never removed from the letter.  The file /etc/Mail.rc defines default mail read-
       ing characteristics on many BSD systems.  This file can contain lists of header lines to be ignored  when  presenting  messages	to  users.
       Nfmail  reads  this  file  to  determine which header lines are normally ignored.  If this file is missing, nfmail doesn't strip any header
       lines.

       The -m option specifies further files, typically ``.mailrc'' files, to search for header lines to ignore.  More	than  one  -m  option  can
       appear on the command line.

       Use the -d option when you want the inserted note or response to be flagged as a director message.

       Nfmail usually appears as a mail alias in the file ``/etc/aliases'' in lines such as:

       problems: "|/usr/spool/notes/.utilities/nfmail -s problems"

BUGS

       The  dependence	on  ``/etc/Mail.rc'' for lists of headers to be ignored should be cleaned up.  Perhaps something where absence of the file
       means to strip all headers except the Subject and From lines.

FILES

       /usr/spool/notes/.utilities/nfmail      where this program lives.
       /etc/aliases			       Mail aliases (BSD UNIX)
       /etc/Mail.rc			       Mail configuration templates

SEE ALSO

       delivermail(8), notes(1), Mail(1), sendmail(8),
       The Notesfile Reference Manual

AUTHORS

       Ray Essick (uiucdcs!essick, essick%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa)
       Department of Computer Science
       University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
       Urbana, IL

       Rob Kolstad (kolstad@convex.UUCP)
       CONVEX Computer Corporation
       Richardson, TX

							      University of Illinois							 NFMAIL(8)

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CHECKNOTES(1)						      General Commands Manual						     CHECKNOTES(1)

NAME

       checknotes - check for new notesfile articles

SYNOPSIS

       checknotes [ -qnvs ] [ -aname ]

DESCRIPTION

       Checknotes  reports  on	the existence of new notes.  The NFSEQ environment variable is read to determine the notesfiles to examine for new
       text.  Checknotes then looks at each of the notesfiles to determine if there are new notes.  The various flags specify the method of  noti-
       fication.  The flags are mutually exlusive.

       The -q option specifies a message ``There are new notes'' when such is the case.  No text is printed if there are no new notes.

       Specify -n to get a message ``There are no new notes'' if this is the case.  If there are new notes, no message is printed.

       With the -v option enabled, checknotes prints the name of each notesfile containing new notes.

       The -s option is silent; no output is produced.

       Regardless of the option, the program exits with 0 (TRUE) if new notes exist and with 1 (FALSE) if no new notes exist.

       The  -a	option	specifies a subsequencer.  This allows several people sharing the same signon to maintain their own sequencer files.  This
       switch does not allow users to forge other user's sequencer files.  Since the name is concatenated with the  user  name,  arbitrarily  long
       subsequencer  names  aren't  necessarily unique.  A good rule of thumb is to ensure the first 6 characters of any given user's subsequencer
       names are unique.

FILES

       /etc/passwd				    for the users name
       /etc/group				    for the users group(s)
       /usr/spool/notes 			    the default notesfile data base
       /usr/spool/notes/.sequencer/user 	    Sequencing timestamps for user.
       /usr/spool/notes/.sequencer/user:subsequencer
						    Sub-sequencing timestamps for user.

SEE ALSO

       notes(1),
       The Notesfile Reference Manual

AUTHORS

       Ray Essick (uiucdcs!essick, essick%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa)
       Department of Computer Science
       University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
       Urbana, IL

       Rob Kolstad (kolstad@convex.UUCP)
       CONVEX Computer Corporation
       Richardson, TX

							      University of Illinois						     CHECKNOTES(1)

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