readmail(1)readmail(1)NAMEreadmail - read mail from a mail folder or incoming mailbox
SYNOPSIS
folder] [number-list|pattern]
DESCRIPTION
The program displays messages from your incoming mailbox or a specified
mail folder.
Within the mail system (see elm(1) with no operands and optionally the
or option, displays the appropriate headers and the body of the current
message.
With the number-list operand and no options, displays the corresponding
messages and a summary of the headers from your incoming mailbox.
With the pattern operand and no options, displays the first message
that matches the pattern and a summary of the headers from your incom‐
ing mailbox.
Options
supports the following options.
Print all messages that match
pattern. If no pattern was specified, this
option is ignored.
Use file folder for the operations instead of the incoming
mailbox.
Include the entire header of the matched message or messages
when displaying their text. The default is to
display the and lines only.
Exclude all headers.
Put form feeds (
between message headers. This is useful when
printing sets of messages.
Operands
supports the following operands.
number-list A blank-separated list of the ordinal locations
of messages in the mail file (i.e., their "mes‐
sage numbers"), up to 25 at a time. The charac‐
ter means the last message in the mail file.
Similarly, represents every message in the file
(i.e.,
The message numbers are sorted into ascending
order. Thus, produces the same output as
pattern A string that is present in one of the messages.
This pattern can be typed in directly (no quotes)
if the words are separated by a single space in
the actual message. The pattern matching is case
sensitive, so and are not equivalent. Leading
digits (on the first word) are not permitted;
however, you can precede them with a space and
quote the entire string, if the space occurs in
the message, as in .
EXAMPLES
If you are using to reply to a message from within the mail system, you
can insert the text of the current message with the command:
If you define an alias similar to:
you can use it with a program such to peruse mail as it arrives, with‐
out needing to start a mail system (see newmail(1)).
AUTHOR
was developed by HP.
FILES
Incoming mailbox
Temporary file for
SEE ALSOelm(1), newmail(1), vi(1).
readmail(1)
