send(1mh)send(1mh)Namesend - send a message
Syntaxsend [ options ] [ file ... ]
Description
Use to send the draft message to the specified recipients. You nor‐
mally choose as one of the options from the program. However, you can
use just like any other MH command.
If you do not have a draft folder set up, messages are created in a
file called in your Mail directory. The draft message remains in the
file until it is either sent or deleted. This means that you can only
have one draft message at a time. If you do have a draft folder set
up, or if you have specified one using the -draftfolder option, the
draft message is created in this folder, which enables you to store
multiple draft messages. For more information, see
The command will normally search for the draft message in the file or
in your draft folder and cause it to be delivered to each of the desti‐
nations in the To:, cc:, Bcc:, and Fcc: fields of the message. If is
redistributing a message, as invoked from the corresponding Resent-xxx
®fields are examined instead. The delivery is carried out using
If you wish to send a named file instead of an existing draft message,
you can specify the file as the file argument. If you do not give an
absolute pathname (one beginning with / or ./ or ../ ) assumes that the
named file is in your Mail directory. Note that the file must be for‐
matted as a legal mail message. If you want to send an existing mail
message rather than a named file, you should use the -draftfolder or
-draftmessage option.
Once the transport system has successfully received the message, the
mail system will rename the file with a leading comma. This allows it
to be retrieved until the next draft message is sent. If there are
errors in the formatting of the message, will abort and issue an error
message.
If the environment variable $SIGNATURE is set, then its value is used
as your personal name when constructing the From: line of the message.
If this variable is not set, then will consult the profile entry Signa‐
ture: for this information.
If is redistributing a message (when invoked by then the mail system
will prepend Resent- to each of these fields: From, Date, and Mes‐
sage-ID. If the message already contains a From: field, then the mail
system will add a Sender: user@local field add as well.
If an Fcc: field is encountered, the mail system copies the message to
the specified folder for the sender in the format in which it appears
to any normal recipients of the message. That is, it includes the
fields appended by the mail system, and the fields are re-formatted.
The Fcc: fields are removed from all outgoing copies of the message.
If the message includes a Bcc: field, recipients in this field receive
a new copy of the message, which includes the body text of the original
message. The new message has a minimal set of headers. The Bcc: field
does not appear on copies of the message sent to recipients in the To:
and cc: fields.
Prior to sending the message, the mail system appends Date: and From:
to the headers in the message, for example:
Date: Wed, 07 June 89 11:18:00 WET
From: rabb@hostname
Options-alias aliasfile
Directs to consult the named files for alias definitions.
More than one file, each preceded by -alias, can be named.
See for more information.
-draft Specifies that the current draft is the message to be sent.
If you do not give a file argument, will query whether the
current draft is the file that you intend to send. You can
suppress this question by using this option.
-draftfolder +foldername
-nodraftfolder
Specifies the draft folder from which the draft message is
taken. will search the specified folder for the draft mes‐
sage and will deliver it to the specified recipients. The
current message in the named folder is used. If you wish to
use another message, you can use the -draftmessage option
with -draftfolder. If there is no current draft message in
the specified folder, will display an error message.
-draftmessage msg
Specifies the draft message to be used. If you specify a
folder with the -draftfolder option, the -draftmessage option
takes the number of a message in that folder. If you do not
specify a folder, -draftmessage takes the name of a file. If
you do not give an absolute pathname (one beginning with / or
./ or ../ ), -draftmessage assumes that the file is located
in your Mail directory.
-filter filterfile
-nofilter Filters (re-formats) messages sent to blind copy recipients.
Recipients named in the Bcc: field usually receive a new mes‐
sage which includes a copy of a message sent to the other
recipients. If this option is given, this copy of the mes‐
sage is filtered according to the instructions in the named
file. The default is -nofilter.
-format
-noformat Replaces each of the entries in the To: and cc: fields with
standard format entries. This standard format is designed to
be usable by all of the message handlers on the various sys‐
tems around the Internet. If -noformat is given, then head‐
ers are output exactly as they appear in the message draft.
The default is -format.
-forward
-noforward
Forwards a copy of a draft message that cannot be sent to the
sender. This option can only be used with the -push option.
If you have specified -push and the draft message cannot be
sent, a failure notice is generated and sent to you. If you
also give this option, a copy of the problem message is for‐
warded with the failure notice. This differs from putting in
the background, because the output is trapped and analyzed by
MH. This is the default behavior. It can be suppressed by
specifying the -noforward option.
-help Prints a list of the valid options to this command.
-msgid
-nomsgid Adds a Message-ID: field to the message.
-mts smtp Specifies the mail system over which mail is sent. The only
value allowed is smtp, which is the standard ULTRIX mail sys‐
tem. Additional values are supported only for use with other
mail systems.
-push
-nopush Instructs to perform its actions in the background. If a
draft fails to be sent, a failure notice is generated and
sent to the sender of the problem message. If you also spec‐
ify the -forward option, the message is forwarded with the
failure notice.
-verbose
-noverbose
Informs the user of each step of the sending process, prior
to actual delivery.
-watch
-nowatch Monitors the delivery of local and network mail. A large
amount of information can be gathered about each step of the
message's entry into the transport system by specifyiing both
this and the -verbose option.
-width columns
Specifies the length of header lines containing addresses.
The defaults for the command are:
file defaults to
-alias /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases
-nodraftfolder
-nofilter
-format
-forward
-nomsgid
-mts smtp
-nopush
-noverbose
-nowatch
-width 72
Restrictions
For this version, the -mts option only supports the value smtp. Addi‐
tional values are supported for use only with other mail systems.
Profile Components
Path: To determine the user's MH directory
Draft-Folder: To determine the default draft folder
Signature: To determine the user's mail signature
mailproc: Program to post failure notices
postproc: Program to post the message
Files
The user profile.
See Alsocomp(1mh), dist(1mh), forw(1mh), repl(1mh), mh-alias(5mh), post(8mh)send(1mh)
