mail, rmail — Read Mail or Send Mail to Users
Synopsis
Sending Mail
/usr/bin/mail [-tw][-m message-type] recipient... /usr/bin/rmail [-tw][-m message-type] recipient...
Reading Mail
/usr/bin/mail [-ehpPqr][-f file] Debugging
/usr/bin/mail [-x debug-level][other-mail-options] recipient...
Description
A recipient is usually a user name recognized by login(1). When you specify recipients, mail assumes a message is being sent. It reads from the standard input up to an end-of-file (Control-D) or, if reading from a terminal device, until it reads a line consisting of just a period. When either of those indicators is received, mail adds the letter to the mail file for each recipient.
A letter is composed of some header lines followed by ...
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