NAME

elm - an interactive mail system

SYNOPSIS

elm [ −achkKmrwz ] [ −f alternate-folder ] [ −d debug-level ]
elm [ −s subject ] list of aliases or addresses

DESCRIPTION

Elm is an interactive screen-oriented mailer program that supercedes mail and mailx. 

There are three main ways to use the elm mailer.  One way to use the mailer is to specify a list of addresses on the command line when the mailer is invoked.  This will allow sending of a single message to the specified recipients with all the options usually available in the elm system itself. For example, the command

 elm -s testing joe
 

would initiate the sending of a message to the alias joe with the subject "testing" indicated and would put you into an editor for you to enter the text of the message.  If the subject flag and argument were not present, you would be prompted for a message subject. 

The second way, used most commonly when transmitting files and such, is to specify the subject of the message and the recipients using the command line and redirect a file as standard input.  For example, the command

 elm -s testing joe < test.c
 

would mail a copy of the file test.c to alias joe, with the subject "testing" indicated.  The subject flag and argument are optional. 

The third way, elm is invoked with neither subject nor addresses specified on the command line and without standard input redirected.  You can then read any messages in your incoming mailbox (or specified folder), reply to messages in the mailbox, mail messages, etc. 

Options are:

  -a Arrow - force the arrow cursor (instead of the inverse bar)

  -c Checkalias - expand the following aliases and return. 

  -d level Debug - set specified debug level - Output to "$HOME/ELM:debug.info"

  -f alternative-folder
Folder - read folder (specified) rather than the incoming mailbox.

  -h Help - give a list of starting options. 

  -?  Synonymous with the "-h" option. 

  -k Keypad - force knowledge of HP terminal keyboard, to allow the use of the NEXT, PREV and HOME/SHIFT-HOME keys. 

  -K Keypad + softkeys - enable use of softkeys on HP terminals only. 

  -m Menu off - Use the extra lines for more message headers. 

  -s subj Subject - specify subject for message to mail. 

  -v Version - print version and configuration information. 

  -z Zero - don’t enter Elm if no mail is pending. 

AUTHOR

Dave Taylor, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

SEE ALSO

The Elm documentation package, including: The Elm Users Guide, The Elm Reference Guide, The Elm Alias System Users Guide, The Elm Forms Mode Guide, The Elm Filter Guide, The Elm Configuration Guide newalias(1L), checkalias(1L), mail(1), mailx(1), frm(1L), printmail(1L)

FILES

/usr/local/lib/elm-help.∗         help files
/usr/local/lib/aliases.text       system alias source
/usr/local/lib/aliases.hash       system alias hash table
/usr/local/lib/aliases.data       system alias data table
$HOME/.elm/aliases.text           user alias source
$HOME/.elm/aliases.hash           user alias hash table
$HOME/.elm/aliases.data           user alias data table
$HOME/.elm/elmrc                  customized mailer parameters
$HOME/.elm/elmheaders             customized message headers
/tmp/snd.$$                       outgoing mail edit buffer
/tmp/mbox.logname            temporary mailbox
$HOME/ELM:debug.info              Debug output if turned on

DIAGNOSTICS

Should know about keyboards/softkey terminals other than HP.  (If only termcap were that powerful!) 

BUG REPORTS TO

Syd Weinsteinelm@DSI.COM(dsinc!elm)

COPYRIGHTS

© Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor
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