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