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RCVTTY(1mh)                                                        RCVTTY(1mh)

NAME
       rcvtty - report new mail with nmh

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/lib/mh/rcvtty [-help] [-version] [command] [-form formatfile]
            [-format string] [-width columns] [-bell | -nobell] [-newline |
            -nonewline] [-biff]

DESCRIPTION
       The  rcvtty command can be used to report new mail.  It is used primar-
       ily in conjunction with mail filtering agents such as slocal  or  proc-
       mail.

       rcvtty  executes the named command with the message as its standard in-
       put, and writes the resulting output on your terminal.

       Alternatively, if no command is specified (or the  command  is  bogus),
       then  rcvtty  will  instead write a one-line scan listing.  The default
       output format of this scan listing may be overridden  by  using  either
       the  -form  formatfile or -format string option, similar to the equiva-
       lent options for scan and inc.  See mh-format(5) for details.

       A newline is output before the message output, and the terminal bell is
       rung  after  the  output.  The -nonewline and -nobell switches will in-
       hibit these functions.

       The switch -width columns may be given to specify the width of the scan
       line.  The default is to use the width of the terminal.

       In  addition  to the standard format escapes described in mh-format(5),
       rcvtty also recognizes the following additional component escapes:

            Escape    Returns  Description
            body      string   the (compressed) first part of the body
            dtimenow  date     the current date
            folder    string   the name of the current folder

       By default, rcvtty will send its output to every terminal on the  local
       machine that is owned by current user, and that has given write permis-
       sion as granted by the command mesg(1).  If the option -biff is  given,
       then  rcvtty  will  obey  the  notification  status  set by the command
       biff(1) instead.

FILES
       /etc/nmh/mts.conf          nmh mts configuration file
       $HOME/.maildelivery        The file controlling local delivery
       /etc/nmh/maildelivery      Rather than the standard file

CONTEXT
       None

DEFAULTS
       `-width' defaults to the width of the terminal
       `-newline'
       `-bell'

SEE ALSO
       mh-format(5), rcvdist(1), rcvpack(1), rcvstore(1), slocal(1)

BUGS
       Only two return codes are meaningful, others should be.

nmh-1.7.1                         1999-04-30                       RCVTTY(1mh)