bionic (8) ap.8mh.gz

NAME

       ap - parse addresses 822-style

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/mmh/ap [-form formatfile] [-normalize | -nonormalize] [-Version] [-help] addrs ...

DESCRIPTION

       Ap  is a program that parses addresses according to the ARPA Internet standard.  It also understands many
       non-standard formats.  It is useful for seeing how mmh will interpret an address.

       The ap program treats each argument as one or more addresses, and  prints  those  addresses  out  in  the
       official 822-format.  Hence, it is usually best to enclose each argument in double-quotes for the shell.

       To  override the output format used by ap, the -form file switch is used.  This permits individual fields
       of the address to be extracted with ease.  The file is either the name of a format file or it  may  be  a
       format string directly, if prepended with an equal sign `='.  See mh-format(5) for the details.

       In addition to the standard escapes, ap also recognizes the following additional escape:

            Escape  Returns  Description
            error   string   A diagnostic if the parse failed

       If the -normalize switch is given, ap will try to track down the official hostname of the address.

       Here is the default format string used by ap:

            %<{error}%{error}: %{text}%|%(putstr(proper{text}))%>

       which  says  that if an error was detected, print the error, a `:', and the address in error.  Otherwise,
       output the 822-proper format of the address.

FILES

       $HOME/.mmh/profile         The user profile

PROFILE COMPONENTS

       None

SEE ALSO

       dp(8), Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages (RFC-822)

DEFAULTS

       `-form' defaults as described above
       `-normalize'

CONTEXT

       None