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  1.  
  2.  
  3.  
  4.           September 4, 1992             UUPC/extended 1.11v Mail Command
  5.           Reference
  6.  
  7.  
  8.           Revision and Copyright:
  9.           Revision and Copyright:
  10.           Revision and Copyright:
  11.  
  12.           This is the 67th revision of this document and applies to version
  13.           1.11v of UUPC/extended.  This document was last updated on
  14.           September 4, 1992 by Katherine E. Williams.  Portions of this
  15.           documentation are Copyright (c) Andrew H. Derbyshire 1989 and
  16.           Copyright (c) Kendra Electronic Wonderworks 1990-1992.  Full
  17.           copyright information for UUPC/extended appears in the file
  18.           README.DOC.
  19.  
  20.  
  21.           Introduction:
  22.           Introduction:
  23.           Introduction:
  24.  
  25.           This file describes how to invoke and use the UUPC/extended MAIL
  26.                                                                       MAIL
  27.                                                                       MAIL
  28.           program.  It lists the commands available from the question mark
  29.           (?) prompt in when reading MAIL.   See tilde.hlp for tilde (~)
  30.           escape commands available when sending mail.
  31.  
  32.  
  33.           Command line options
  34.           Command line options
  35.           Command line options
  36.  
  37.           The MAIL 
  38.               MAIL 
  39.               MAIL  program is used for both sending and receiving mail.
  40.           The options available depend whether you wish to send or receive
  41.           mail.  For sending mail interactively, the syntax is:
  42.  
  43.                mail -s "subject" addressees
  44.  
  45.           If the -s "subject" is omitted, the user is prompted for a
  46.           subject.  Addressees must be specified, and are in the form
  47.           listed below.  For receiving mail, the syntax is:
  48.  
  49.                mail -f filename
  50.                mail -u userid
  51.  
  52.           where filename is the mailbox to be read using the syntax
  53.           described below for filenames, or userid is the user id whose
  54.           system mailbox is to be read.  The default is to read your own
  55.           system mailbox.
  56.  
  57.  
  58.           Types of operands
  59.           Types of operands
  60.           Types of operands
  61.  
  62.           In the list of available commands, items refers to one or more
  63.           items in the mail box.  These items can be specified in the
  64.           following fashion:
  65.  
  66.           Item Number    A single numeric value,  the special
  67.                          character dot (.) to specify the current
  68.                          item, or the special character dollar sign
  69.                          ($) to specify the last item in the mailbox.
  70.           Item range     Two Item numbers separated by a hyphen (-).
  71.                          The items must be in ascending order; for
  72.                          example, 1-$ is valid, $-1 is not valid.
  73.  
  74.  
  75.  
  76.           September 4, 1992             UUPC/extended       
  77.                                                       1.11v Mail Command
  78.           Reference
  79.  
  80.           List of items  A list of item numbers and/or item ranges,
  81.                          separated by spaces.  The list need not be
  82.                          in ascending order.  An example is: 1-5 8 7
  83.                          14-17.
  84.           Asterisk (*)   Selects all items in the mailbox
  85.           Subject        A slash (/) followed by a subject to search
  86.                          for, optionally followed by a terminating
  87.                          slash.  Each Subject: or Resent-Subject:
  88.                          will be searched for the specified string.
  89.                          An example is /UUPC bugs/
  90.           User id        A single word (no white space) appearing in
  91.                          the From or Resent-From lines of the mail
  92.                          header.  Note that if the command accepts
  93.                          both an item and a userid, you cannot
  94.                          specify the item as a user id.
  95.  
  96.                          Note:
  97.                          Note:
  98.                          Note: If the command accepts both an item
  99.                          and file name and you specify a user id for
  100.                          the item, you must explicitly provide the
  101.                          default filename unless the user id includes
  102.                          the characters at sign (@), percent sign
  103.                          (%), or exclamation point (!).
  104.  
  105.  
  106.           Some commands also allow file names as operands.  These may be
  107.           described in the following fashion:
  108.  
  109.           Simple file    An MS-DOS file name with no path name
  110.           name
  111.           Relative path  An MS-DOS file name with one or more back
  112.           name           slashes (\) which does not begin with a back
  113.                          slash or drive letter.
  114.           Absolute path  An MS-DOS file name with one or more back
  115.           name           slashes (\) which begins with a back slash
  116.                          or drive letter.
  117.           Mailbox        A simple file name prefixed by the plus sign
  118.                          (+) character.  This will cause the file be
  119.                          referenced as if it is the mailbox for the
  120.                          specified user.  For example, +postmast
  121.                          refers to the mailbox for user postmast.
  122.           Relative to    A simple file name preceded by a tilde and
  123.           your home      slash (~/).  The file is then referenced by
  124.           directory      the prepending the home directory listed in
  125.                          your PERSONAL.RC to the simple file name.
  126.           Relative to    A simple file name preceded by a tilde, the
  127.           another's home userid, and a slash (~userid/).  The file is
  128.           directory.     then referenced by the prepending the home
  129.                          directory listed in the PASSWD file for user
  130.                          "userid" to the simple file name.
  131.  
  132.  
  133.           When sending mail from the MS-DOS command line or via the mail
  134.                                                                     mail
  135.                                                                     mail or
  136.           forward
  137.           forward
  138.           forward commands, addressees must be entered.  These take the
  139.           form:
  140.  
  141.  
  142.  
  143.           September 4, 1992             UUPC/extended 1.11v Mail Command
  144.           Reference
  145.  
  146.           userid              A simple user id, for delivery on the
  147.                               local system.
  148.  
  149.           userid@node         A user id and node combination, for
  150.                               delivery to userid on system node.
  151.  
  152.           nickname            A user or list defined in the user's
  153.                               ALIASES
  154.                               ALIASES
  155.                               ALIASES.
  156.                                      .
  157.                                      .TXT 
  158.                                       TXT 
  159.                                       TXT file.
  160.  
  161.           If the flag -c 
  162.                       -c 
  163.                       -c is inserted before a user id, then all following
  164.           users are delivered as Carbon Copy (Cc:) addressees.  If the flag
  165.           -b
  166.           -b
  167.           -b is inserted before a user id, then all following users are
  168.           delivered as blind carbon copies; their addresses do not appear
  169.           in the mail header.  The blind carbon copy flag must follow any
  170.           all normal addressees and carbon copy addressees.
  171.  
  172.  
  173.           Commands available when reading mail:
  174.           Commands available when reading mail:
  175.           Commands available when reading mail:
  176.  
  177.           Commands are entered in response to the mail question mark prompt
  178.           (?); all commands must be separated from their operands, if any,
  179.           by white space.  Most commands can be abbreviated to a single
  180.           character; the commands which cannot be so abbreviated and their
  181.           shortest allowable abbreviation are debug
  182.                                               debug
  183.                                               debug (deb
  184.                                                      deb
  185.                                                      deb), dquit 
  186.                                                            dquit 
  187.                                                            dquit (dq
  188.                                                                   dq
  189.                                                                   dq),
  190.           previous
  191.           previous
  192.           previous (pre
  193.                     pre
  194.                     pre),  set
  195.                            set
  196.                            set (se
  197.                                 se
  198.                                 se), and status
  199.                                          status
  200.                                          status (st
  201.                                                  st
  202.                                                  st).
  203.  
  204.           The commands supported by UUPC/extended 
  205.                                                   
  206.                                                   are as follows:
  207.  
  208.           empty line               If the current mail has not been
  209.                                    touched, then an empty line acts as a
  210.                                    print
  211.                                    print
  212.                                    print command; otherwise, it acts as a
  213.                                    next
  214.                                    next
  215.                                    next command.
  216.           ! command                Executes 
  217.                                             
  218.                                             command as an MS-DOS command.
  219.                                    If command is omitted, runs an
  220.                                    inferior command processor (which
  221.                                    gives the user a new DOS prompt.)
  222.           ?                        Prints a summary of commands
  223.                                    available.
  224.           + integer                Alias for down
  225.                                              down
  226.                                              down command.
  227.           - integer                Alias for up
  228.                                              up
  229.                                              up command.
  230.           alias a1 a2 a3           Displays alias information loaded from
  231.                                    user's ALIASES
  232.                                           ALIASES
  233.                                           ALIASES.
  234.                                                  .
  235.                                                  .TXT 
  236.                                                   TXT 
  237.                                                   TXT file for nicknames
  238.                                    a1 a2 a3.  If an alias is list of
  239.                                    other aliases, the list is recursively
  240.                                    exploded and displayed.  This command
  241.                                    has no default operand; at least one
  242.                                    alias must be specified.
  243.           copy items file          Copies mail items into file with
  244.                                    headers.  Default file is the printer
  245.                                    on device PRN
  246.                                              PRN
  247.                                              PRN.
  248.  
  249.  
  250.  
  251.           September 4, 1992             UUPC/extended       
  252.                                                       1.11v Mail Command
  253.           Reference
  254.  
  255.           debug integer            Sets internal trace level to integer;
  256.                                    default is 0 at start up, 1 if command
  257.                                    is entered with no operands.  This can
  258.                                    also be set by the command line flag -
  259.                                                                         -
  260.                                                                         -
  261.                                    x.
  262.                                    x.
  263.                                    x.
  264.           delete items             Sets status of       to deleted.
  265.                                                   items 
  266.                                    Deleted items are ignored when
  267.                                    selecting mail by subject or user id,
  268.                                    and are purged from the mailbox when
  269.                                        quit
  270.                                        quit
  271.                                        quit
  272.                                    the      command is issued.
  273.           dquit items              Short for delete
  274.                                              delete
  275.                                              delete followed by quit.
  276.                                                                 quit.
  277.                                                                 quit.
  278.           exit                     Exits mail without updating mailbox;
  279.                                    deleted items are left alone.  Compare
  280.                                    this to the quit
  281.                                                quit
  282.                                                quit command.
  283.           forward items addrs      Resends       to 
  284.                                            items            Note that if
  285.                                                     addrs.
  286.                                        askcc 
  287.                                        askcc 
  288.                                        askcc 
  289.                                    the       option is set, each item
  290.                                    forwarded will be prompted for Carbon
  291.                                    Copy addressees.
  292.              items
  293.           go                       Positions to the last of the items
  294.                                    selected.
  295.           headers                  Displays summary information for all
  296.                                    items in the mailbox.
  297.           Headers items            Displays summary information for the
  298.                                    selected       in the mailbox.
  299.                                             items
  300.           help                     Prints this long help text.
  301.                   subject addrs
  302.           mail -s                  Interactively send mail to addrs with
  303.                addrs
  304.           mail                     optional subject.
  305.           next integer             Move down in mailbox by integer items.
  306.                                    Default is 1.
  307.           previous integer         Alias of up 
  308.                                             up 
  309.                                             up command.
  310.                 items
  311.           print                    Print items from mailbox, using the
  312.                                    external pager if defined in the
  313.                                    configuration file and ignoring (not
  314.                                    printing) a standard list of RFC-822
  315.                                    fields in the mail header such as
  316.                                    Received: and Message-Id:.  Compare
  317.                                    this to the Print
  318.                                                Print
  319.                                                Print  type
  320.                                                       type
  321.                                                       type
  322.                                                     ,     , and Type
  323.                                                                 Type
  324.                                                                 Type
  325.                                    commands,
  326.                                            ,
  327.                                            ,
  328.           Print items              Print       from mailbox, using
  329.                                          items
  330.                                    internal pager and ignoring (not
  331.                                    printing) a standard list of RFC-822
  332.                                    fields in the mail header.
  333.           quit                     Terminates the reading of mail.  All
  334.                                    deleted items are purged, and all
  335.                                    other items are saved in the original
  336.                                    mailbox or in =mbox depending on the
  337.                                    setting of the      flag.
  338.                                                   save
  339.                                                   save
  340.                                                   save
  341.           reply items              Interactively sends mail to the
  342.                                    authors of each of the items
  343.                                    requested.  Note that each item is
  344.                                    replied to separately, specifying
  345.                                    "reply 1-10" will send ten pieces of
  346.                                    mail to ten people.
  347.  
  348.  
  349.  
  350.           September 4, 1992             UUPC/extended 1.11v Mail Command
  351.           Reference
  352.  
  353.           save items file          Saves the specified items complete
  354.                                    with mail headers into file, and then
  355.                                    deletes the items.  Compare this to
  356.                                    the copy 
  357.                                        copy 
  358.                                        copy and write
  359.                                                 write
  360.                                                 write commands.
  361.           set                      Sets various boolean options.   These
  362.                                    option can also be set in your
  363.                                    PERSONAL
  364.                                    PERSONAL
  365.                                    PERSONAL.
  366.                                            .
  367.                                            .RC 
  368.                                             RC 
  369.                                             RC file.  The options are
  370.                                    listed below under SET OPTIONS
  371.                                                       SET OPTIONS
  372.                                                       SET OPTIONS.
  373.                                                                  .
  374.                                                                  .
  375.           status                   Reports miscellaneous program
  376.                                    information, including:
  377.  
  378.                                         The version and creation time of
  379.                                              the program
  380.                                         The operating system version
  381.                                         The current address and related
  382.                                              information
  383.                                         The current file name, size, and
  384.                                              date last updated
  385.  
  386.           type items               Print items from mailbox, using
  387.                                    external pager if available and
  388.                                    displaying RFC-822 fields suppressed
  389.                                    by the print
  390.                                           print
  391.                                           print command.  Compare this to
  392.                                    the print
  393.                                         rint
  394.                                         rint, Print
  395.                                               Print
  396.                                               Print, and Type
  397.                                                          Type
  398.                                                          Type commands,
  399.                                                                       ,
  400.                                                                       ,
  401.           Type items               Print items from mailbox, using
  402.                                    internal pager and displaying RFC-822
  403.                                    fields suppressed by the print
  404.                                                             print
  405.                                                             print and
  406.                                    Print
  407.                                    Print
  408.                                    Print commands.
  409.           undelete                 Changes status of items to unread.
  410.           write items file         Writes items
  411.                                           items
  412.                                           items to file
  413.                                                    file
  414.                                                    file without the RFC-
  415.                                    822 headers and then deletes them.
  416.                                    The default file is ~/mbox
  417.                                                        ~/mbox
  418.                                                        ~/mbox.  Compare
  419.                                    this to the copy
  420.                                                copy
  421.                                                copy and save
  422.                                                         save
  423.                                                         save commands.
  424.           xit                      Alias for the exit
  425.                                                  exit
  426.                                                  exit command.
  427.  
  428.           Set options
  429.           Set options
  430.           Set options
  431.  
  432.           In addition to the commands listed above, a variety of options
  433.           can be set in the various configuration files; of special note
  434.           are the boolean options specified via options=
  435.                                                 options=
  436.                                                 options=  keyword in the
  437.           configuration files, as they can be changed via the set
  438.                                                               set
  439.                                                               set command.
  440.           Options are enabled by specifying their keyword, and disabled by
  441.           prefixing the keyword with the characters "no"; the default for
  442.           all options is disabled.
  443.  
  444.           Valid boolean options which can be set by the user in the UUPC.RC
  445.           file, their PERSONAL.RC file, or via the options
  446.                                                    options
  447.                                                    options command are as
  448.           follows:
  449.  
  450.  
  451.  
  452.           September 4, 1992             UUPC/extended       
  453.                                                       1.11v Mail Command
  454.           Reference
  455.  
  456.  
  457.           Option    Default operation          Operation if set
  458.           name
  459.  
  460.  
  461.  
  462.  
  463.           askcc     The user must enter all    After composing, reply
  464.                     addressees when invoking   to, or forwarding mail,
  465.                     mail
  466.                     mail
  467.                     mail    forward
  468.                             forward
  469.                             forward
  470.                          or        .           the user is prompted for
  471.                     Additional addressees      carbon copy (Cc:)
  472.                     cannot be added to mail    addressees.
  473.                     generated by      .
  474.                                  reply
  475.                                  reply
  476.                                  reply
  477.  
  478.  
  479.           autoedit  When sending mail, the     If the user has defined
  480.                     user is presented with     an editor, when sending
  481.                     the line oriented  send    mail,  the editor is
  482.                     mail interface.  To use a  immediately invoked for
  483.                     full screen editor, the    the user to enter mail
  484.                     user must use the ~e
  485.                                       ~e
  486.                                       ~e       with.  The user must exit
  487.                     (edit) command or exit     the editor to  include
  488.                     line oriented data entry   mail from the active
  489.                     to invoke his editor.      mailbox.
  490.  
  491.  
  492.           autoincl  Do not automatically       When the reply command is
  493.           ude       include the text of mail   invoked, automatically
  494.                     being replied to.          include the text of the
  495.                                                mail being replied to as
  496.                                                if the ~m command was
  497.                                                issued.
  498.  
  499.  
  500.           autosign  When sending mail, the     If defined in the user's
  501.                     user's signature file is   configuration file, the
  502.                     not appended to outgoing   signature is
  503.                     mail automatically.  If    automatically appended to
  504.                     defined, the user mail     all outgoing mail.
  505.                     still include the file
  506.                     via the ~g
  507.                             ~g
  508.                             ~g (include
  509.                     autograph) command.
  510.  
  511.  
  512.  
  513.           September 4, 1992             UUPC/extended       
  514.                                                       1.11v Mail Command
  515.           Reference
  516.  
  517.  
  518.           backup    Do not create a backup of  Before updating or
  519.                     the file being processed   deleting the current file
  520.                     before rewriting or        when exiting mail, rename
  521.                     deleting it.               the existing file to the
  522.                                                same file name with the
  523.                                                extension defined by the
  524.                                                configuration variable
  525.                                                BackupExt
  526.                                                BackupExt
  527.                                                BackupExt.
  528.  
  529.                                                Note:
  530.                                                Note:
  531.                                                Note: If no extension is
  532.                                                defined, a default
  533.                                                extension of "BAK" is
  534.                                                used.
  535.  
  536.  
  537.           doskey    Under DOS, interactive     If installed, the MS-DOS
  538.                     input is read from the     5.0 DOSKEY program is
  539.                     console using standard     used to read input from
  540.                     DOS services (INT 21H      the console; normal
  541.                     function 0AH).  DOSKEY,    DOSKEY functions,
  542.                     if installed, is ignored.  including the ability to
  543.                     Empty input lines are      edit and scroll input,
  544.                     processed normally.        along with macro
  545.                                                expansion, is available.
  546.                                                Empty lines (which can be
  547.                                                generated by DOSKEY macro
  548.                                                processing) are ignored
  549.                                                at the command prompt
  550.                                                unless the expert 
  551.                                                           expert 
  552.                                                           expert option
  553.                                                is also set.
  554.  
  555.                                                Note: 
  556.                                                Note: 
  557.                                                Note: If DOSKEY is not
  558.                                                installed, when the user
  559.                                                is first prompted for
  560.                                                input the doskey 
  561.                                                          doskey 
  562.                                                          doskey option
  563.                                                is reset to nodoskey
  564.                                                            nodoskey
  565.                                                            nodoskey with
  566.                                                a warning message.
  567.  
  568.  
  569.           dot       When sending mail,         When sending mail,
  570.                     interactive input must be  interactive input can be
  571.                     terminated by the DOS end  terminated by a single
  572.                     of file character (Ctrl-   period (.) in column one.
  573.                     Z).
  574.  
  575.  
  576.  
  577.           September 4, 1992             UUPC/extended       
  578.                                                       1.11v Mail Command
  579.           Reference
  580.  
  581.  
  582.           expert    All informational          Boiler plate messages,
  583.                     messages are displayed,    such as the initial help
  584.                     and if the        option
  585.                                doskey
  586.                                doskey
  587.                                doskey          prompt, are suppressed,
  588.                     is also set, empty input   and empty input lines are
  589.                     lines are ignored in       not ignored when the
  590.                     response to the command    doskey
  591.                                                doskey
  592.                                                doskey option is set.
  593.                     prompt.
  594.  
  595.  
  596.           forward-  Mail sent via the forward
  597.                                       forward
  598.                                       forward  If the user has defined
  599.           save      command is not saved in    an outgoing mailbox, then
  600.                     the user's outgoing        mail sent via the forward
  601.                                                                  forward
  602.                                                                  forward
  603.                     mailbox.                   command is saved in the
  604.                                                same fashion as other
  605.                                                outgoing mail.
  606.  
  607.  
  608.           fromsep   Items in the mailbox must  Items in the mailbox can
  609.                     be separated by a line of  be separated only by UUCP
  610.                     binary ones (1).           format      lines.  The
  611.                                                       From
  612.                                                       From
  613.                                                       From
  614.                                                line of binary ones (1)
  615.                                                required between items by
  616.                                                the default operation of
  617.                                                nofromsep
  618.                                                nofromsep
  619.                                                nofromsep is still
  620.                                                generated when updating
  621.                                                mailboxes.
  622.  
  623.                                                Note: 
  624.                                                Note: 
  625.                                                Note: This option must be
  626.                                                set in a system or user
  627.                                                configuration file,
  628.                                                because it only examined
  629.                                                at start up.
  630.  
  631.  
  632.           pager     help
  633.                     help
  634.                     help  print
  635.                           print
  636.                           print
  637.                         ,       and type
  638.                                     type
  639.                                     type       help
  640.                                                help
  641.                                                help
  642.                                          use         print
  643.                                                      print
  644.                                                      print and 
  645.                                                    ,           type
  646.                                                                type
  647.                                                                type use
  648.                     the external pager if one  the internal pager, and
  649.                     is defined, and Print 
  650.                                     Print 
  651.                                     Print      Print 
  652.                                                Print 
  653.                                                Print 
  654.                                           and            Type 
  655.                                                          Type 
  656.                                                          Type 
  657.                                                      and      use the
  658.                          use the in
  659.                     Type 
  660.                     Type 
  661.                     Type           ternal      external pager if one is
  662.                     pager.                     defined
  663.  
  664.  
  665.           purge     Empty mailboxes are left   Empty mailboxes are
  666.                     in place when the user     deleted when the user
  667.                     exits mail.                exits mail.
  668.  
  669.  
  670.  
  671.           September 4, 1992             UUPC/extended       
  672.                                                       1.11v Mail Command
  673.           Reference
  674.  
  675.  
  676.           save      Mail is left in the        If mail is not deleted
  677.                     user's system mailbox      from the user's system
  678.                     after reading.             mailbox after reading, it
  679.                                                is automatically saved in
  680.                                                his        file when the
  681.                                                    ~/mbox 
  682.                                                    ~/mbox 
  683.                                                    ~/mbox 
  684.                                                user exits mail.
  685.  
  686.  
  687.           suppress  Display the UUPC/extended  Suppress the copyright
  688.           -         copyright notice at        notice at program
  689.           copyrigh  program startup.           startup.  This, of
  690.           t                                    course, does not suppress
  691.                                                the associated
  692.                                                responsibility.
  693.  
  694.                                                Note: 
  695.                                                Note: 
  696.                                                Note: This option must be
  697.                                                set in a system or user
  698.                                                configuration file,
  699.                                                because it only examined
  700.                                                at start up.
  701.  
  702.  
  703.           undelete  The environment variable   The DELDIR 
  704.                                                    DELDIR 
  705.                                                    DELDIR  environment
  706.                            is reset to a null
  707.                     DELDIR 
  708.                     DELDIR 
  709.                     DELDIR                     variable is left alone,
  710.                     string by       , causing
  711.                               UUPOLL
  712.                               UUPOLL
  713.                               UUPOLL           causing OS/2 to copy all
  714.                     files deleted by its       deleted files to a hidden
  715.                     children (        UUPOLL
  716.                                       UUPOLL
  717.                                       UUPOLL
  718.                                     , 
  719.                               UUCICO
  720.                               UUCICO
  721.                               UUCICO        ,  directory.  This causes a
  722.                     and   CLEAN
  723.                           CLEAN
  724.                           CLEAN
  725.                         UU
  726.                         UU
  727.                         UU     ) to not be     performance and free disk
  728.                     archived by the OS/2       space impact by saving
  729.                           ing system for
  730.                     operat                     files which the user
  731.                     later recovery.            should never have to
  732.                                                access, much recover.
  733.  
  734.                                                Note: 
  735.                                                Note: 
  736.                                                Note: This option must be
  737.                                                set in a system or user
  738.                                                configuration file,
  739.                                                because it is only exam-
  740.                                                ined at UUPOLL 
  741.                                                        UUPOLL 
  742.                                                        UUPOLL start up.
  743.  
  744.  
  745.  
  746.           September 4, 1992             UUPC/extended       
  747.                                                       1.11v Mail Command
  748.           Reference
  749.  
  750.  
  751.           verbose   When invoked from mail,    When invoked from mail,
  752.                           only displays error
  753.                     RMAIL
  754.                     RMAIL
  755.                     RMAIL                      rmail displays both error
  756.                     messages.                  messages and nominal
  757.                                                status messages,
  758.                                                including the addresses
  759.                                                mail was delivered to.
  760.  
  761.                                                Note: 
  762.                                                Note: 
  763.                                                Note: This option must be
  764.                                                set in a system or user
  765.                                                configuration file,
  766.                                                because it only examined
  767.                                                at start up.
  768.  
  769.  
  770.  
  771.  
  772.           The following system oriented options must apply to all users on
  773.           a system and can only
  774.                            only
  775.                            only be set in the UUPC.RC file:
  776.  
  777.  
  778.           Option    Default operation          Operation if set
  779.           name
  780.  
  781.  
  782.  
  783.  
  784.           bang      RFC-822 headers are        RFC-822 headers are
  785.                     generated with a           generated with UUCP style
  786.                           name" <user@node>
  787.                     "User                      (User name) node!user
  788.                     format.                    format.
  789.  
  790.  
  791.           collect   The size of mail is not    The RMAIL delivery and
  792.                     reported by RMAIL.         spooling messages include
  793.                                                the size of the files
  794.                                                delivered.
  795.  
  796.  
  797.           director  Mail for  "user" is        Mail for  "user" is
  798.           y         delivered to the file      delivered to the file
  799.                          in the directory
  800.                     user                       newmail in the user sub-
  801.                     specified by the maildir=
  802.                                      maildir=
  803.                                      maildir=  directory of the
  804.                     line in the system         directory specified by
  805.                     configuration file.        the maildir=
  806.                                                    maildir=
  807.                                                    maildir= line in the
  808.                                                system configuration
  809.                                                file.
  810.  
  811.  
  812.  
  813.           September 4, 1992             UUPC/extended       
  814.                                                       1.11v Mail Command
  815.           Reference
  816.  
  817.  
  818.           escape    Only Ctrl-Break can be     If the Esc (Escape) key
  819.                     used to exit from UUPOLL   is pressed, then the next
  820.                     or UUCICO.                 time UUPOLL or UUCICO
  821.                                                polls the type-ahead
  822.                                                buffer the program will
  823.                                                act as if Cntl-Break was
  824.                                                pressed.
  825.  
  826.                                                Note:
  827.                                                Note:
  828.                                                Note: Enabling this
  829.                                                option effectively
  830.                                                disables type-ahead,
  831.                                                since all characters
  832.                                                except Esc are discarded
  833.                                                with an error message.
  834.  
  835.  
  836.           history   No news history is         A history is maintained
  837.                     maintained.                of all news articles read
  838.                                                and posted.
  839.  
  840.                                                Note:
  841.                                                Note:
  842.                                                Note:      history
  843.                                                           history
  844.                                                           history
  845.                                                       The         option
  846.                                                is currently ignored.
  847.  
  848.  
  849.           kanji     No translation of          Mail which orginates
  850.                     characters takes place     locally is translated
  851.                     during RMAIL processing.   from a 2 byte Kanji code
  852.                                                called Shift-JIS
  853.                                                (Japanese ideogram) to
  854.                                                Kanji in a 7bit subset of
  855.                                                ISO2022 which can be
  856.                                                transmitted via SMTP.
  857.                                                Mail from remote systems
  858.                                                which is delivered
  859.                                                locally is translated
  860.                                                from JIS 7bit back to
  861.                                                Shift-JIS.
  862.  
  863.  
  864.           monocase  Job sequence ids are       Job sequence ids are
  865.                     generated in base 62       generated in base 36
  866.                     using numerics and upper   using numerics and upper
  867.                     and lower case             case alphabetics.
  868.                     alphabetics.
  869.  
  870.  
  871.  
  872.           September 4, 1992             UUPC/extended       
  873.                                                       1.11v Mail Command
  874.           Reference
  875.  
  876.  
  877.           multitas  Processing is optimized    Additional processing is
  878.           k         for speed over system      performed to insure
  879.                     integrity.                 system integrity.  This
  880.                                                additional processing
  881.                                                includes creating lock
  882.                                                files to prevent
  883.                                                concurrent access to
  884.                                                system spool directories,
  885.                                                writing program logs to
  886.                                                temporary files and then
  887.                                                appending the file to the
  888.                                                permanent log file at
  889.                                                program termination, and
  890.                                                movng new mail from the
  891.                                                user's system mailbox
  892.                                                into the user's home
  893.                                                directory when      is
  894.                                                               MAIL 
  895.                                                               MAIL 
  896.                                                               MAIL 
  897.                                                first run after the new
  898.                                                mail's arrival.
  899.  
  900.  
  901.           multique  When queuing mail for      When queuing mail for
  902.           ue        other hosts, each ad-      other hosts, a single
  903.                     dressee is delivered       file delivered via the
  904.                     separately.                remote UUCP can have
  905.                                                multiple addressees.
  906.  
  907.  
  908.           snews     Incoming news is written   Incoming news is written
  909.                     to seperate files in       to a file in the     Dir
  910.                                                                     Dir
  911.                                                                     Dir
  912.                                                                 News
  913.                                                                 News
  914.                                                                 News
  915.                     directories based on the   directory without examing
  916.                     news group names listed    the ACTIVE file.
  917.                     in the ACTIVE file
  918.                     located in the NewsDir
  919.                                    NewsDir
  920.                                    NewsDir
  921.                     directory.
  922.  
  923.  
  924.           symmetri  When actively polling,     UUCICO
  925.                                                UUCICO
  926.                                                UUCICO transmits the
  927.            grades
  928.           c         UUCICO
  929.                     UUCICO
  930.                     UUCICO does not transmit   maximum grade for file
  931.                     the maximum grade for      transfers allowed by the
  932.                     file transfers allowed by  SYSTEMS
  933.                                                SYSTEMS
  934.                                                SYSTEMS file to the
  935.                         SYSTEMS
  936.                         SYSTEMS
  937.                         SYSTEMS
  938.                     the         file to the    remote system at startup.
  939.                     remote system at startup.
  940.  
  941.  
  942.           syslog    No record is made of       The file SYSLOG is
  943.                     files transferred.         written in the spool
  944.                                                directory with a record
  945.                                                for each file transferred
  946.                                                to or from the local
  947.                                                system.
  948.  
  949.  
  950.  
  951.           September 4, 1992             UUPC/extended 1.11v Mail Command
  952.           Reference
  953.