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ACMEMAIL(1)ACMEMAIL(1)

NAME

Mail – view mail in acme

SYNOPSIS

Mail [ -OsT ] [ -m maildir ] [ -f format ] [ -o outbox ]

DESCRIPTION

Mail edits a mailbox in an acme(1) environment. The default mailbox is /mail/fs/mbox. Mail shows 3 views: The list view, the message view, and the composition view.

At startup, Mail takes the following options:

Disable threading  

Disable writing to outbox  

Accept sendmail plumb messages. By default, only the Mail instance viewing /mail/fs/mbox will accept plumb messages.  

Open the maildir maildir instead of the default  

Define the format of individual messages in the list view (see "Format strings" below).  

Save a copy of outgoing messages to the mailbox outbox, instead of discarding them after they’re enqueued.  

Mail presents an acme interface for a upas/fs mailbox. When started, a mailbox, by default /mail/fs/mbox, is presented. In the message list, the tag bar commands typically affect the selected message. In the message and composition views, they typically apply to the current message.

The following text commands are recognized by the message list:

Flush pending changes back to upasfs(4).  

Flags a message for deletion on the next Put invocation.  

Select the next unread message in the mailbox.  

Add or remove message flags. The flags recognized are listed in upasfs(4)  

Shows only messages where the sender or subject match the filter regexp, or where the flags string matches the state of the message. The flags used are the same as for Mark, with the addition of u to represent unread messages. Filter without an argument resets the filtering, showing all messages again.  

Redraws the contents of the mailbox.  

The following text commands are recognized by the message view:

Replies to a message, quoting it. If all is specified, reply to all addresses on the message.  

As with the message view, but applied to the open message.  

As with the message view, but applied to the open message.  

The following text commands are recognized by the composition window:

Sends the message currently being composed.  

Format strings

The formatting of messages in the list view is controlled by the format string defined through the -f flag. The format string is composed of multiple directives: plain characters, which are displayed unchanged; indentation directives, which allows spacing based on thread depth; and messages directives, which display message fields.

Directives have the following format:

% [flags] [width] verb  

width limits the number of characters displayed. If width is negative, text is aligned right instead of left.

The supported flags are:

Insert indentation into the start of the field. This does not increase the width of the field.  

Messages directives are:

Subject  

From field  

From field including sender’s name  

To field  

Cc field  

Reply-to field  

Indentation directives are:

Adds spacing depending on message depth in thread but limited to a single level. If width is not specified, adds a tabulation otherwise width specifies the number of spaces to display.  

Similar to i but not limited to a single level.  

Two special directives are also available:

Text within the brackets is displayed if the message is not the toplevel message of a thread.  

Text within the braces is used as the format string for tmfmt(2).  

The default format string is "%>48s\\t<%f>"

FILES

SEE ALSO

mail(1), aliasmail(8), filter(1), marshal(1), mlmgr(1), nedmail(1), upasfs(4), smtp(8), faces(1), rewrite(6)

BUGS

Probably.