mail

Question 1

mail

Answer 1

mail is an intelligent mail processing system which has a command syntax reminiscent of ed(1) with lines replaced by messages.

Question 2

mail

• a, Specify additional header fields.
• b bcc-addr, Send blind carbon copies.
• c cc-addr, Send carbon copies to list of users.
• d, Cause mail to output debugging info.
• E, Dont send messages with empty body.
• f, Use an alternate mail box.

Answer 2

• I, Force mail to run interactively.
• i, Ignore tty interrupt signals.
• N, Inhibits initial display of message headers.
• n, Inhibits reading /etc/mail.rc upon startup.
• r from-addr, User from-addr as the from mail address in the message and envelope.
• s subject, Specify subject on command line.
• u user, Equivalent to mail f /var/mail/user, Except locking is done.