Command Reference Guide
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EDITOR=command The command to run when the edit or ˜e command is used. Default is ed (see
ed(1)).
encoding=encoding
Set the default encoding to be used when 8-bit characters are present. Allowable
values are quoted-printable, base64 and 8bit. The short-hand q-p is also acceptable for
quoted-printable. The default value will be determined based upon the value of
charset. A value of 8bit means not to encode.
escape=c Substitute c for the ˜ escape character.
folder=directory The directory for saving standard mail files. User specified file names beginning with
a plus (+) are expanded by preceding the file name with this directory name to obtain
the real file name. If directory does not start with a slash (/ ), $HOME is used as a
prefix. There is no default for the folder variable. See also outfolder below.
header Enable printing of the header summary when entering mailx. Enabled by default.
hold Preserve all messages that are read in the system mailbox instead of putting them in
the standard mbox save file. Default is nohold.
ignore Ignore interrupts while entering messages. Useful when communicating over noisy
dial-up lines. Default is noignore.
ignoreeof Ignore end-of-file during message input. Input must be terminated by a period (.)on
a line by itself or by the
˜. command. Default is noignoreeof . See also dot
above.
keep When the mailbox is empty, truncate it to zero length instead of removing it. Dis-
abled by default.
keepsave Keep messages that have been saved in other files in the system mailbox instead of
deleting them. Default is nokeepsave.
MBOX=filename The name of the file to save messages which have been read. The x
it command over-
rides this function, as does saving the message explicitly in another file. Default is
$HOME/mbox.
metoo Usually, when a group (alias) containing the sender is expanded, the sender is
removed from the expansion. Setting this option causes the sender to be included in
the group. Default is
nometoo.
mimeheader= value
To add or disable MIME header when sending mail. "value" can be ’yes’ or ’no’.
LISTER=command The command (and options) to use when listing contents of the folder directory.
The default is ls(1).
NOMETAMAIL= value
To disable the usage of metamail to read MIME messages, set the value to TRUE. By
default the NOMETAMAIL variable is not set.
onehop When responding to a message that was originally sent to several recipients, the other
recipient addresses are normally forced to be relative to the originating author’s
machine for the response. This flag disables alteration of the recipients’ addresses,
improving efficiency in a network where all machines can send directly to all other
machines (i.e., one hop away).
outfolder Cause the files used to record outgoing messages to be located in the directory
specified by the folder variable. Default is nooutfolder. See folder above
and the Save, Copy, followup, and Followup commands.
page Used with the pipe command to insert a form feed after each message sent through
the pipe. Default is nopage.
PAGER= command The command to use as a filter for paginating output. This can also be used to specify
the pager command-line options (for example, set PAGER="more -c"). Default
is pg (see pg(1)), but many users prefer more (see more(1)).
prompt= string
Set the command mode prompt to string. Default is ?.
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