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NAME

       rcvtty  - report new mail

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/mh/rcvtty [command] [-form formatfile] [-format string] [-width columns] [-bell | -nobell]
            [-newline | -nonewline] [-biff] [-version] [-help]

DESCRIPTION

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

       The  rcvtty  program  executes  the  named command with the message as its standard input, and writes the
       resulting output on your terminal.

       Alternately, if no command is specified (or is bogus), then rcvtty will instead  write  a  one-line  scan
       listing.   The  default  output  format  of this scan listing may be overridden by using either the -form
       formatfile 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 options 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 machine 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

       /etc/nmh/mts.conf          nmh mts configuration file
       $HOME/.maildelivery        The file controlling local delivery
       /etc/nmh/maildelivery      Rather than the standard file

CONTEXT

       None

DEFAULTS

       `-width' defaults to the width of the terminal
       `-newline'
       `-bell'

SEE ALSO

       rcvdist(1), rcvpack(1), rcvstore(1), mh-format(5), slocal(1)

BUGS

       Only two return codes are meaningful, others should be.