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