NEXTMAIL

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NAME

nextmail - ucb "mail" compatible frontend to Mail.app  

SYNOPSIS

nextmail [ -e ] [ -s subject ] [ -c user ] [ user ... ]  

DESCRIPTION

Nextmail (if necessary) launches Mail.app and opens a Compose window in it. The message text is read from the standard input. The recipients are set to be the arguments of nextmail. A subject line can be given with the -s option. Any number of users can receive carbon copies by usage of multiple -c options. If a recipient is given and the -e option is not also specified the message is delivered immediately without giving the user an opportunity to edit it.

If an -NXHost host or -NSHost host option is given, nextmail tries to contact Mail.app on the specified host instead of the local host.

The -H option displays a summary of the options that appnmail responds to, and -V shows the program's version.

The primary purpose of nextmail is to allow various non-NeXTstep based programs to use Mail.app as their mail handler. An interface for the emacs news agent GNUS is included in the file gnus-mailapp.el.

Trn will use nextmail if invoked with these switches.

    -EMAILPOSTER='nextmail -e -s "Re: %s" %t <%h'
    -EFORWARDPOSTER='nextmail -e -s "%s" %t <%h'

`Unable to connect to Mail.app' if you try to start nextmail from a
remote session.
 

AUTHOR

Carl Edman <cedman@lynx.ps.uci.edu>

Almost completely derived from the Jim Millions <uunet!wiltel!jmillion> RemoteMailCompose example.

Tom Hageman <mailapp-utilities@basil.icce.rug.nl> is the current maintainer.  

VERSION

Mail.app utilities version 2.1, February 1998.


 

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