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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Linux
Commands
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-f file
Use sendmail statistics file file instead of the file specified in
the sendmail configuration file.
-o Don’t show the name of the mailer in the report.
-p Print stats without headers or separators. Output suitable for
use by other programs. Reset statistics.
-P Print stats without headers or separators. Output suitable for
use by other programs. Do not reset statistics.
mailto
mailto [options] [recipients]
Send mail with MIME types and text formatting. If no recipients
are specified, mailto prompts for the names. This program has a
very similar interface to that of the mail command, with two differ-
ences: it only sends mail, and it adds a number of text-formatting
and MIME-handling features, described here. For features not
covered here, see the mail command. mailto uses the metamail
backend and relies on the mailcap configuration files.
Options
-a charset
Specify an alternate character set.
-c name
Specify a name for the CC: field. Specify multiple names with
a comma-separated list inside double quotes.
-s subj
Specify the Subject: field. Use double quotes if there are any
spaces.
Text formatting
Mail formatting is handled with escape sequences that begin with
the tilde (~) character. Those for text formatting are:
~b Turn bold text on or off.
~i Turn italic text ...
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