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RCVTTY(1)		     General Commands Manual		       RCVTTY(1)

NAME
     rcvtty - report new mail with nmh

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/local/libexec/nmh/rcvtty [-help] [-version] [command] [-form format-
	  file] [-format string] [-width columns] [-bell | -nobell] [-newline |
	  -nonewline] [-biff]

DESCRIPTION
     The rcvtty command can be used to report new mail.  It is used primarily in
     conjunction with mail filtering agents such as slocal or procmail.

     rcvtty  executes  the named command with the message as its standard input,
     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 for-
     mat  of  this scan listing may be overridden by using either the -form for-
     matfile or -format string option, similar to  the	equivalent  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  inhibit
     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 ma-
     chine that is owned by current user, and that has given write permission 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
     /usr/local/etc/nmh/mts.conf	  nmh mts configuration file
     $HOME/.maildelivery		  The file controlling local delivery
     /usr/local/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-1.8+dev			   1999-04-30			       RCVTTY(1)

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