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From: Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] nedmail(1): add plenty of missing commands + (theoretical) flag descriptions
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:46:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D4996DE-362B-41A7-93D0-38A87376C560@stanleylieber.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99F890A5FB8C4BCD411C145CC792511C@chrisfroeschl.de>

should we document flags that don’t work?

sl

> On Sep 17, 2022, at 9:41 AM, Chris A. Fröschl <chris@chrisfroeschl.de> wrote:
> 
> Theoretical flag description was taken from
> /sys/src/cmd/upas/common/common.h:13,21 . "Theoretical" because
> nedmail doesn't seem to really work with most of them or use them in
> other ways.  Feel free to adjust if you know more.
> 
> ---
> diff 05b08f6665b8b0c14c0cb4caa42929db8d26c6c9 ef0ab109af2852d0f35318f6476f3d37860cc568
> --- a/sys/man/1/nedmail
> +++ b/sys/man/1/nedmail
> @@ -157,6 +157,9 @@
> Mark message to be deleted upon exiting
> .IR nedmail .
> .TP
> +.BI F " [+-][aDdfrSs]
> +Set message flags.
> +.TP
> .B f
> Append the message to the file 
> .BI /mail/box/ username / sendername
> @@ -164,6 +167,9 @@
> .I sendername
> is the account name of the sender.
> .TP
> +.B fq
> +Print mailbox f appends.
> +.TP
> .B h
> Print the disposition, size in characters, reception time, sender,
> and subject of the message.
> @@ -174,6 +180,16 @@
> .B help
> Print a summary of the commands.
> .TP
> +.B i
> +Incorporate new mail.
> +.TP
> +.BI k " [flags]
> +Mark mail.
> +.TP
> +.BI K " [flags]
> +Unmark mail.
> +.BI 
> +.TP
> .BI m " person ...
> Forward the message as a mime attachment to the named
> .IR persons .
> @@ -184,10 +200,22 @@
> but allow the user to type in text to be included
> with the forwarded message.
> .TP
> +.BI mb " mbox"
> +Switch mailboxes.
> +.TP
> .B p
> Print message.
> An interrupt stops the printing.
> .TP
> +.B P
> +Print the raw message.
> +.TP
> +.B """
> +Print a quoted version of msg
> +.TP
> +.B """"""
> +Format and quote msg.
> +.TP
> .BI r " args
> Reply to the sender of the message.
> .I Marshal
> @@ -203,7 +231,7 @@
> .B r
> but with the original message included as an attachment.
> .TP
> -.B rf
> +.BI rf " args 
> Like
> .B r
> but append the message and the reply to the file 
> @@ -212,7 +240,7 @@
> .I sendername
> is the account name of the sender.
> .TP
> -.B Rf
> +.B Rf " args
> Like 
> .B R
> but append the message and the reply to the file 
> @@ -235,6 +263,9 @@
> and the string
> .BR att.XXXXXXXXXXX .
> .TP
> +.B t
> +Print text formatter.
> +.TP
> .B q
> Put undeleted mail back in the mailbox and stop.
> .TP
> @@ -275,6 +306,31 @@
> .TP
> .B \&=
> Print the number of the current message.
> +.PD
> +.PP
> +The flags are:
> +.TP
> +.B a
> +Answered
> +.PD 0
> +.TP
> +.B D
> +Deleted
> +.TP
> +.B d
> +Draft
> +.TP
> +.B f
> +Flagged
> +.TP
> +.B r
> +Recent
> +.TP
> +.B S
> +Stored
> +.TP
> +.B s
> +Seen
> .PD
> .PP
> Here's an example of a mail session that looks at a summary
> 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-17 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-17 13:37 Chris A. Fröschl
2022-09-17 13:46 ` Stanley Lieber [this message]
2022-09-17 13:50   ` chris
2022-09-17 14:01   ` chris
2022-09-19  6:37     ` chris

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