HP-UX Mailing Services Administrator's Guide (B2355-91064)

these messages are not displayed the next time mailx is invoked. Messages remain in
this file until removed explicitly.
During startup, mailx reads commands from a system-wide file,
/usr/share/lib/mailx.rc, to initialize certain parameters. It then uses the
personalized variables available in the user-specific startup file, $HOME/mailrc. When
you invoke mailx, a header summary of all the messages is displayed, followed by a
prompt indicating that mailx can accept regular options. Each message is assigned
with a sequential number, and the first message is always marked by a > in the header
summary.
mailx operates in command mode when you read mail and in input mode when you
send mail. The behavior of mailx is governed by a set of environment variables, flags,
and valued parameters that you can enable and disable using the set and unset
options.
mailx provides a list of options, environment variables, and tilde escape commands.
You can use tilde escape commands only in input mode by beginning a line with the
tilde escape character (~). Environment variables are internal mailx program variables,
and can be imported from the execution environment.
mailx provides native language support (NLS) for processing mails in different
languages. To enable NLS support for a language, the respective language definition
must exist in the HP-UX system. In an NLS environment, mailx depends on the time
zone information defined in the mail header to display the date and time information.
Table 1-2 lists the time zones currently supported by mailx.
Table 1-2 Time Zones Supported by mailx
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20 Mailing Services Overview