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WHOM(1mh)                                                                                  WHOM(1mh)

NAME
       whom - show to whom an nmh message would be sent

SYNOPSIS


       whom [-help] [-version] [-alias aliasfile] [-check | -nocheck] [-draftfolder +folder]
            [-draftmessage msg] [-nodraftfolder] [-mts smtp | sendmail/smtp | sendmail/pipe]
            [-server servername] [-port port-name/number] [-sasl] [-saslmech mechanism] [-snoop]
            [-user username] [-tls] [-initialtls] [-notls] [file] [-draft]

DESCRIPTION
       whom is used to expand the headers of a message into a set of addresses and optionally verify
       that those addresses are deliverable at that time (if -check is given).

       The -draftfolder +folder and -draftmessage msg switches invoke the nmh draft folder facility.
       This is an advanced (and highly useful) feature.  Consult mh-draft(5) for more information.

       The mail transport system default is provided in /etc/nmh/mts.conf but can be overridden here
       with the -mts switch.

       If  nmh is using the SMTP MTA, the -server and the -port switches can be used to override the
       default mail server (defined by the /etc/nmh/mts.conf servers entry).  The -snoop switch  can
       be  used to view the SMTP transaction.  (Beware that the SMTP transaction may contain authen‐
       tication information either in plaintext or easily decoded base64.)

       If nmh has been compiled with SASL support, the -sasl switch will enable the use of SASL  au‐
       thentication  with  the  SMTP MTA.  Depending on the SASL mechanism used, this may require an
       additional password prompt from the user (but the netrc file can be used to store this  pass‐
       word,  as described in mh-profile(5)).  The -saslmech switch can be used to select a particu‐
       lar SASL mechanism, and the -user switch can be used to select a authorization userid to pro‐
       vide to SASL other than the default.  The credentials  profile  entry  in  mh-profile(5)  de‐
       scribes the ways to supply a username and password.

       If SASL authentication is successful, nmh will attempt to negotiate a security layer for ses‐
       sion  encryption.  Encrypted data is labelled with `(encrypted)' and `(decrypted)' when view‐
       ing the SMTP transaction with the -snoop switch; see post(8)'s description of -snoop for  its
       other features.

       If  nmh  has  been compiled with TLS support, the -tls, -initialtls, and -notls switches will
       require and disable the negotiation of TLS support when connecting  to  the  SMTP  MTA.   En‐
       crypted  data  is labelled with `(tls-encrypted)' and `(tls-decrypted)' when viewing the SMTP
       transaction with the -snoop switch; see post(8)'s description of -snoop and the TLS flags for
       more details.

       The files specified by the profile entry “Aliasfile:” and any additional alias files given by
       the -alias aliasfile switch will be read (more than one file, each preceded by -alias, can be
       named).  See mh-alias(5) for more information.

FILES
       $HOME/.mh_profile          The user profile

PROFILE COMPONENTS
       Path:                To determine the user's nmh directory
       Draft-Folder:        To specify the default draftfolder
       Aliasfile:           For a default alias file
       postproc:            Program to post the message

SEE ALSO
       mh-alias(5), mh-draft(5), mh-profile(5), post(8)

DEFAULTS
       `file' defaults to <mh-dir>/draft
       `-nocheck'
       `-alias' defaults to  /etc/nmh/MailAliases

CONTEXT
       None

BUGS
       With the -check option, whom makes no guarantees that the addresses listed as  being  ok  are
       really  deliverable,  rather,  an address being listed as ok means that at the time that whom
       was run the address was thought to be deliverable by the transport service.   For  local  ad‐
       dresses,  this  is absolute; for network addresses, it means that the host is known; for uucp
       addresses, it (often) means that the UUCP network is available for use.

nmh-1.8                                      2022-12-22                                    WHOM(1mh)