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NAME
marshal - formatting and sending mail
SYNOPSIS
upas/marshal [ -[aA] attachment ] [ -C copyaddr ] [ -B copyaddr ] [
-Fr#xn ] [ -p[es] ] [ -R reply-msg ] [ -s subject ] [ -t mime-type ] [
-8 | mailaddr ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Marshal builds a mail message from standard input and passes it, if the
body is non-empty, for transmission or delivery to /mail/box/user‐
name/pipefrom if it exists, otherwise to /bin/upas/send. The message
format is both RFC 822 and MIME conformant, so marshal adds any re‐
quired headers not already in the message, prefixed by the contents of
/mail/box/username/headers. This allows the addition of personal head‐
ers like From: lines with a full name or a different return address.
Command line options direct marshal to add a subject line and append
attachments. The arguments to marshal are the addresses of the recipi‐
ents.
When running in a rio(1) window, marshal automatically puts the window
into hold mode (see rio(1)); this means that the message can be edited
freely, because nothing will be sent to marshal until the ESC key is
hit to exit hold mode.
The options are:
-afile directs marshal to append file as a mime attachment. Unless ex‐
plicitly specified by the -t option, the type of the attachment
is determined by running the file(1) command.
-Afile is like -a but the message disposition is marked as inline di‐
recting any mail reader to display the attachment (if it can)
when the mail message is read.
-Ccopyaddr
or -Bcopyaddr adds a Cc: or Bcc: header with copyaddr and also
adds copyaddr as a recipient.
-F file the message
-n intentionally no standard input
-#xr are all passed as command line options to the send that marshal
invokes.
-Rreplymsg
tells marshal what message this one is in reply to. Replymsg is
an upasfs(4) directory containing the message. Marshal uses any
message id in this message in its In-Reply-To field. It also
passes the directory to /mail/box/username/pipefrom in the re‐
plymsg environment variable. Thus, pipefrom can alter the mes‐
sage to somehow match the reply to the message it is replying
to.
-ssubject
adds a Subject: header line to the message if one does not al‐
ready exist.
-ttype sets the content type for the attachments from all subsequent -a
and -A options.
-ps pgp sign the message
-pe pgp encrypt the message
-8 reads recipients ( To: Cc: and Bcc: ) from RFC 822 header of the
message
Marshal also expands any user mail aliases contained in /mail/box/user‐
name/names. The format of the alias file is the same as that for sys‐
tem aliases, see aliasmail(8).
Marshal uses the login name as the reply address. This can be overri‐
den using the environment variable upasname. Its value will become
both the envelope and From: mailbox name. For example:
upasname=natasha@kremvax.com upas/mail boris@squirrel.com
Marshal interprets file attachment headers Attach: and Include: as if
the -A or -a options would have been given.
FILES
/mail/box/*/dead.letter
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/upas/marshal
SEE ALSO
aliasmail(8), faces(1), filter(1), mail(1), mlmgr(1), nedmail(1),
qer(8), rewrite(6), send(8), smtp(8), upasfs(4)
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