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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
- -a, –append=,HEADER/: VALUE append given header to the message being sent
- –[no-]alternative
- –[no-]alternative
- force multipart/alternative content type
- 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 –attach option
- –content-name=,NAME/
- set the Content-Type name parameter for the next –attach option
- –content-type=,TYPE/
- set content type for subsequent –attach options
- -E, –exec=,COMMAND/
- execute COMMAND
- -e, –exist
- return true if mail exists
- –encoding=,NAME/
- set encoding for subsequent –attach options
- -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
- Global debugging settings
- –debug-level=,LEVEL/
- set Mailutils debugging level
- –[no-]debug-line-info show source info with debugging messages
- Configuration handling
- 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
- 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.