Mailx attach a file

The use of this command is strongly discouraged since it may strip header fields that are needed to decode the message correctly. Takes a message list and a floating point number and adds the number to the score of each given message. All messages start at score 0 when a folder is opened. When the score of a message becomes negative, it is 'killed' with the effects described for the kill command; otherwise if it was negative before and becomes positive, it is 'unkilled'. Scores only refer to the currently opened instance of a folder.

With no arguments, prints all variable values, piped through the pager if the output does not fit on the screen. Otherwise, sets option. Quotation marks may be placed around any part of the assignment statement to quote blanks or tabs, i. If an argument begins with no , as in ' set nosave ', the effect is the same as invoking the unset command with the remaining part of the variable ' unset save '.

Defines a shortcut name and its string for expansion, as described for the folder command. With no arguments, a list of defined shortcuts is printed. Like print , but performs neither MIME decoding nor decryption so that the raw message text is shown. Create a sorted representation of the current folder, and change the next command and the addressing modes such that they refer to messages in the sorted order.

Message numbers are the same as in regular mode. If the header variable is set, a header summary in the new order is also printed. Possible sorting criteria are: date. Sort messages by the value of their ' From: ' field, that is by the address of the sender.

If the showname variable is set, the sender's real name if any is used. Sort messages by the value of their ' To: ' field, that is by the address of the recipient. If the showname variable is set, the recipient's real name if any is used.

Create a threaded representation of the current folder, i. Message numbers are the same as in unthreaded mode. If the header variable is set, a header summary in threaded order is also printed.

Takes a message list and prints the top few lines of each. The number of lines printed is controlled by the variable toplines and defaults to five. Takes a message list and marks the messages for saving in the mbox file. Takes a list of names defined by alias commands and discards the remembered groups of users. The group names no longer have any significance. Takes a message list and makes the message and all replies to it visible in header summaries again. When a message becomes the current message, it is automatically made visible.

Also, when a message with collapsed replies is printed, all of these are automatically uncollapsed. Undefines each of the named macros. It is not an error to use a name that does not belong to one of the currently defined macros. Takes a message list and undoes the effect of a good command that was previously applied on exactly these messages. Takes a message list and undoes the effect of a junk command that was previously applied on exactly these messages.

Disable sorted or threaded mode see the sort and thread commands , return to normal message order and, if the header variable is set, print a header summary. Takes a message list and verifies each message. The verification process checks if the message was signed using a valid certificate, if the message sender's e-mail address matches one of those contained in the certificate, and if the message content is altered. Takes a message list and invokes the display editor on each message.

For conventional messages, the body without all headers is written. The output is decrypted and converted to its native format, if necessary. If the output file exists, the text is appended. For the second and subsequent parts, if the filename given starts with a ' ' character, the part is piped through the remainder of the filename interpreted as a shell command.

In non-interactive mode, only the parts of the multipart message that have a filename given in the part header are written; the others are discarded. The original message is never marked for deletion in the originating mail folder.

For attachments, the contents of the destination file are overwritten if the file previously existed. No special handling of compressed files is performed.

Mailx presents message headers in windowfuls as described under the headers command. The z command scrolls to the next window of messages. If an argument is given, it specifies the window to use. Similar to z , but scrolls to the next or previous window that contains at least one new or 'flagged' message.

Execute the indicated shell command, then return to the message. With no arguments, edit the attachment list. First, the user can edit all existing attachment data. If an attachment's file name is left empty, that attachment is deleted from the list.

When the end of the attachment list is reached, mailx will ask for further attachments, until an empty file name is given. If filename arguments are specified, all of them are appended to the end of the attachment list.

Filenames which contain white space can only be specified with the first method no filename arguments. Add the given names to the list of carbon copy recipients but do not make the names visible in the Cc: line 'blind' carbon copy.

Read the file ' dead. Invoke the text editor on the message collected so far. After the editing session is finished, the user may continue appending text to the message.

Read the named messages into the message being sent. If no messages are specified, read in the current message. Message headers currently being ignored by the ignore or retain command are not included. For MIME multipart messages, only the first printable part is included. Edit the message header fields ' To: ', ' Cc: ', ' Bcc: ', and ' Subject: ' by typing each one in turn and allowing the user to append text to the end or modify the field using the current terminal erase and kill characters.

If this tilde command was used, changing the variables has no effect on the current message anymore. Insert the value of the specified variable into the message adding a newline character at the end.

If the variable is unset or empty, the message remains unaltered. Read the named messages into the message being sent, indented by a tab or by the value of indentprefix. If no messages are specified, read the current message.

Print out the message collected so far, prefaced by the message header fields and followed by the attachment list, if any. If the message text is longer than the screen size, it is piped through the pager. Abort the message being sent, copying the message to ' dead. Usually, the alternate editor will be a screen editor.

After the editor is quit, the user may resume appending text to the end of the message. Write the message onto the named file. If the file exists, the message is appended to it. Pipe the message through the command as a filter. If the command gives no output or terminates abnormally, retain the original text of the message.

The command fmt is often used as command to rejustify the message. If the escape character is changed, that character must be doubled to send it at the beginning of a line. Causes messages saved in mbox to be appended to the end rather than prepended. This should always be set. Causes mailx to prompt for the subject of each message sent.

If the user responds with a newline, no subject field will be sent. Causes the prompts for ' Cc: ' and ' Bcc: ' lists to appear after the message is edited. If set, mailx asks for files to attach at the end of each message. Responding with a newline indicates not to include an attachment. Causes the user to be prompted for additional carbon copy recipients at the end of each message if askatend or bsdcompat is set.

Responding with a newline indicates the user's satisfaction with the current list. Causes the user to be prompted for additional blind carbon copy recipients at the end of each message if askatend or bsdcompat is set.

Causes the user to be prompted if the message is to be signed at the end of each message. The smime-sign variable is ignored when this variable is set. Causes threads to be collapsed automatically when threaded mode is entered see the collapse command. Causes the delete command to behave like dp ; thus, after deleting a message, the next one will be typed automatically.

Causes threaded mode see the thread command to be entered automatically when a folder is opened. Enables the substitution of '!

Normally, the Bayesian junk mail filter bases its classifications on single word tokens extracted from messages. If this option is set, adjacent words are combined to pairs, which are then used as additional tokens. This usually improves the accuracy of the filter, but also increases the junk mail database five-to-tenfold.

The date in a header summary is normally the date of the mailbox ' From ' line of the message. If this variable is set, the date as given in the ' Date: ' header field is used, converted to local time.

Prints debugging messages and disables the actual delivery of messages. Unlike verbose , this option is intended for mailx development only. When an IMAP mailbox is selected and this variable is set, no connection to the server is initiated. Instead, data is obtained from the local cache see imap-cache. Changes that are made to IMAP mailboxes in disconnected mode are queued and committed later when a connection to that server is opened in online mode.

This procedure is not completely reliable since it cannot be guaranteed that the IMAP UIDs unique identifiers on the server still match the ones in the cache at that time. Data is saved to ' dead. The specified account is handled as described for the disconnected variable above, but other accounts are not affected. The binary option dot causes mailx to interpret a period alone on a line as the terminator of a message the user is sending.

When a message is edited while being composed, its header is included in the editable text. If set, an empty mailbox file is not removed. This may improve the interoperability with other mail user agents when using a common folder directory. If the mailbox is empty, mailx normally prints ' No mail for user ' and exits immediately. If this option is set, mailx starts even if the mailbox is empty.

Original messages are normally sent as inline text with the forward command, and only the first part of a multipart message is included.

The fwdignore and fwdretain options are ignored when the forward-as-attachment option is set. When replying to a message, mailx normally removes the comment parts of e-mail addresses, which by convention contain the full names of the recipients. If this variable is set, such stripping is not performed, and comments are retained.

Causes the header summary to be written at startup and after commands that affect the number of messages or the order of messages in the current folder; enabled by default. An option related to dot is ignoreeof which makes mailx refuse to accept a control-d as the end of a message. Ignoreeof also applies to mailx command mode.

This functionality is not supported by all servers, and is not used if the session is already encrypted by the IMAPS method. This option causes mailx to truncate the user's system mailbox instead of deleting it when it is empty. This should always be set, since it prevents malicious users from creating fake mail folders in a world-writable spool directory.

When a message is saved, it is usually discarded from the originating folder when mailx is quit. Setting this option causes all saved message to be retained. When a message is replied to and this variable is set, it is marked as having been answered. Usually, when a group is expanded that contains the sender, the sender is removed from the expansion. Setting this option causes the sender to be included in the group.

Checks for new mail in the current folder each time the prompt is printed. For IMAP mailboxes, the server is then polled for new mail, which may result in delayed operation if the connection to the server is slow. A maildir folder must be re-scanned to determine if new mail has arrived. If this variable is set to the special value nopoll , an IMAP server is not actively asked for new mail, but new mail may still be detected and announced with any other IMAP command that is sent to the server.

A maildir folder is not scanned then. In any case, the IMAP server may send notifications about messages that have been deleted on the server by another process or client. In this case, ' Expunged n messages ' is printed regardless of this variable, and message numbers may have changed.

Setting the option noheader is the same as giving the -N flag on the command line. Causes the filename given in the record variable and the sender-based filenames for the Copy and Save commands to be interpreted relative to the directory given in the folder variable rather than to the current directory unless it is an absolute pathname. The connection fails if the server does not support the APOP command.

This functionality is not supported by all servers, and is not used if the session is already encrypted by the POP3S method. This option causes all characters to be considered printable.

It is only effective if given in a startup file. With this option set, some character sequences in messages may put the user's terminal in an undefined state when printed; it should only be used as a last resort if no working system locale can be found. If both this variable and the record variable are set, the resend and Resend commands save messages to the record folder as it is normally only done for newly composed messages.

If this variable is set, mailx first tries to use the same character set of the original message for replies. If this fails, the sendcharsets variable is evaluated as usual. When the user aborts a message with two RUBOUT interrupt characters, mailx copies the partial letter to the file ' dead. This option is set by default. The string search is case insensitive. When sending a message, wait until the mail transfer agent exits before accepting further commands.

If the mail transfer agent returns a non-zero exit status, the exit status of mailx will also be non-zero. Setting this option causes mailx to start at the last message instead of the first one when opening a mail folder. Join Date: Jan Hi I want ot send a mail with aatach a file for this i have tried Code :.

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