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mail.mailutils – process mail messages
Synopsis
mail.mailutils [,OPTION/…] [,address/…]
mail.mailutils [,OPTION/…] [,OPTION/…] [,file/]
mail.mailutils [,OPTION/…] ,–file /[,OPTION/…] [,file/]
mail.mailutils [,OPTION/…] ,–file=file /[,OPTION/…]
Description
GNU mail — process mail messages. If -f or –file is given, mail operates on the mailbox named by the first argument, or the user’s mbox, if no argument given.
-A,–attach=,FILE/- attach FILE
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-a,–append=,HEADER/: VALUE append given header to the message being sent–[no-]alternative -
- force multipart/alternative content type
–attach-fd=,FD/- attach from file descriptor FD
–content-filename=,NAME/- set the Content-Disposition filename parameter for the next
–attachoption –content-name=,NAME/- set the Content-Type name parameter for the next
–attachoption –content-type=,TYPE/- set content type for subsequent
–attachoptions -E,–exec=,COMMAND/- execute COMMAND
-e,–exist- return true if mail exists
–encoding=,NAME/- set encoding for subsequent
–attachoptions -F,–byname- save messages according to sender
-H,–headers- write a header summary and exit
-i,–ignore- ignore interrupts
-M,–[no-]mime- compose MIME messages
-N,–nosum- do not display initial header summary
-n,–norc- do not read the system mailrc file
-p,–print,–read- print all mail to standard output
-q,–quit- cause interrupts to terminate program
-r,–return-address=,ADDRESS/- use address as the return address when sending mail
-s,–subject=,SUBJ/- send a message with the given SUBJECT
–[no-]skip-empty-attachments- skip attachments with empty body
-t,–to- read recipients from the message header
-u,–user=,USER/- operate on USER’s mailbox
- Global debugging settings
–debug-level=,LEVEL/- set Mailutils debugging level
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–[no-]debug-line-infoshow source info with debugging messages -
- Configuration handling
–config-file=,FILE/- load this configuration file; implies
–no-config –config-lint- check configuration file syntax and exit
–config-verbose- verbosely log parsing of the configuration files
–no-config- do not load site and user configuration files
–no-site-config- do not load site-wide configuration file
–no-user-config- do not load user configuration file
–set=,PARAM=VALUE/- set configuration parameter
- Informational options
–config-help- show configuration file summary
–show-config-options- show compilation options
- -?,
–help - give this help list
–usage- give a short usage message
-V,–version- print program version
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.
Reporting Bugs
Report bugs to <bug-mailutils [at] gnu.org>.
GNU Mailutils home page: <http://mailutils.org>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Copyright
Copyright © 2007-2019 Free Software Foundation, inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
See Also
The complete GNU mailutils documentation is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the mailutils-doc package is installed, the command
info mailutils
should give you access to the complete manual.
You can also find this manual online in the GNU mailutils webpage:
https://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/manual/index.html.
Please note this manpage was automatically generated by the Debian mailutils packagers. Do not file bugs for its content to the GNU Mailutils upstream authors.