Mailx

Jul 20, 2023

Mail command with mailx extensions

Mail command with mailx extensions.

Mailx command is based on BSD mail command, but it also provides some enhanced features such as

o Edit header information. o Use pager program to display long message. o Add pipe | command. You can pass the mail message to the shell command by using this feature. o Add Save, Copy command. o Add askcc, askbcc command. The mailx program ask you Cc and Bcc at the beggining. o Add hsubject command. This is similar to subject command, but it only displays Subject headers. o Add tilda escape command.

See also the files in $PREFIX/share/doc/mailx directory.



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