Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

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Commands

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-d Don’t ask before running an interpreter to view the message.

The default is to ask.

-e Remove (“eat”) leading newlines in the message body. Useful

for MH-format mail.

-f addr

Specify the name of the message sender. The default is to try

to determine the name from the header.

-h Specify that a message is to be printed. Automatically sets -d.

-m mailer

Specify the mail program that called metamail, for use by any

interpreters that metamail calls.

-p If necessary, display the output one page at a time. The default

is to pipe the output through more, but the environment vari-

able METAMAIL_PAGER can be set to specify an alternative

command. Use -p rather than piping the message to a pager.

-P Like -p, but also print “Press RETURN to go on” at the end of

each page. Cannot be used with -B.

-q Run quietly.

-r Specify that metamail can be run as root.

-R Run /usr/ucb/reset to reset the terminal before performing any

other I/O.

-s subject

Specify the Subject field. By default, the subject is determined

from the headers.

-T Turn off the effect of the environment variable MM_

TRANSPARENT. Intended to be used recursively by meta-

mail, and should be used only when the program restarts

itself in a terminal emulator window.

-w Don’t consult a mailcap file to determine how to display ...