5 .TH RCVTTY %manext1% "%nmhdate%" MH.6.8 [%nmhversion%]
7 rcvtty \- report new mail
19 .RB [ \-bell " | " \-nobell ]
20 .RB [ \-newline " | " \-nonewline ]
28 can be used to report new mail. It is used primarily
29 in conjunction with mail filtering agents such as
36 program executes the named command with the message as
37 its standard input, and writes the resulting output on your terminal.
39 Alternately, if no command is specified (or is bogus), then
41 will instead write a one\-line scan listing. The default output format
42 of this scan listing may be overridden by using either the
48 option, similar to the
49 equivalent options for
57 A newline is output before the message output, and the terminal bell is
58 rung after the output. The
63 inhibit these functions.
68 may be given to specify the width of
69 the scan line. The default is to use the width of the terminal.
71 In addition to the standard format escapes described in
74 also recognizes the following additional
80 .ta \w'Dtimenow 'u +\w'Returns 'u
81 Escape Returns Description
82 body string the (compressed) first part of the body
83 dtimenow date the current date
84 folder string the name of the current folder
90 will send its output to every terminal on the
91 local machine that is owned by current user, and that has given write
92 permission as granted by the command
98 will obey the notification status
106 .ta \w'%etcdir%/ExtraBigFileName 'u
107 ^%etcdir%/mts.conf~^nmh mts configuration file
108 ^$HOME/\&.maildelivery~^The file controlling local delivery
109 ^%etcdir%/maildelivery~^Rather than the standard file
117 .RB ` \-width "' defaults to the width of the terminal"
123 rcvdist(1), rcvpack(1), rcvstore(1), mh\-format(5), slocal(1)
126 Only two return codes are meaningful, others should be.