Brian K. White typed (on Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 05:02:43PM -0400):
| Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
| >> "man mutt" shows it has the option and it is "-b
user@host.com"
| >> however it does not show how to specify the plain old regular
| >> recipient or how to send a basic mail non-interactively. However,
| >> "mutt
brian@aljex.com </etc/profile" did in fact work, so although
| >> the man page doesn't say it, it appears to be as easy to use as
| >> plain /bin/mail, just with extra options.
| >
| > Huh? It says so plain as day in the second usage line under SYNOPSIS:
| >
| > mutt [-nx] [-e cmd] [-a file] [-F file] [-H file] [-i file]
| > [-s subj] [-b addr] [-c addr] addr [...]
|
| Mine says:
|
| SYNOPSIS
| mutt [-hnpRvxyzZ] [-a file] [-b address] [-c address] [-e
| command] [-f mailbox] [-F muttrc] [-H draftfile] [-i
| include] [-m type] [-s subject]
|
|
| however, "mutt --help" does show it:
|
| Mutt 1.2.5.1i (2000-07-28)
| usage: mutt [ -nRzZ ] [ -e <cmd> ] [ -F <file> ] [ -m <type> ] [ -f <file> ]
| mutt [ -nx ] [ -e <cmd> ] [ -a <file> ] [ -F <file> ] [ -H <file> ]
| [ -i <file> ] [ -s <subj> ] [ -b <addr> ] [ -c <addr> ] <addr> [ ... ]
| mutt [ -n ] [ -e <cmd> ] [ -F <file> ] -p
| mutt -v[v]
|
|
| This copy came from the skunkware vol package.
That's a real antique, and a bloated silly user of ncurses besides.
Compile current source, Brian...
Does that copy even use <F1> while in mutt to bring up help?
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JP