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MAIL The name of the initial mailbox ﬁle to be read. By default, the mailbox is set to

/var/mail/username

. This environment variable overrides the default setting

and causes

mailx to open the mailbox speciﬁed by the environment variable.

MAILRC The name of the mailer start-up ﬁle. Default is

$HOME/.mailrc.

LC_COLLATE

LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE inﬂuence

mailx when the command interpreter

(see the

SHELL environment variable) is invoked. To determine the behavior of

LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE, see the corresponding shell manpage for the appli-

cable command interpreter.

LC_TIME LC_TIME determines the format and contents of the date and time strings

displayed. If LC_TIME is not speciﬁed in the environment, or is set to the empty

string, the value of LANG is used as a default. If

LANG is not speciﬁed or is set to

the empty string, a default of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead of

LANG. If any

internationalization variable contains an invalid setting,

mailx behaves as if all

internationalization variables are set to "C". See environ(5).

TMPDIR When set, the TMPDIR environment variable speciﬁes a directory to be used for

temporary ﬁles, overriding the default directory /tmp

International Code Set Support

Single- and multibyte character code sets are supported within mail text. Headers are restricted to char-

acters from the 7-bit USASCII character code set (see ascii (5)).

WARNINGS

Where command is shown as valid, arguments are not always allowed. Experimentation is recom-

mended.

Internal variables imported from the execution environment cannot be

unset.

The full internet addressing is not fully supported by

mailx. The new internationalization standards

need some time to settle down.

mail, the standard mail delivery program, treats a line consisting solely of a dot (.

) as the end of the

message.

Using two separate mail programs to access the same mail ﬁle simultaneously (usually inadvertently

from two separate windows) can cause unpredictable results.

Arguments containing multiple words must be enclosed in quotes. Otherwise they may be interpreted

incorrectly.

FILES

/var/mail/ Post ofﬁce directory (mode 775, group ID mail)

/var/mail/user System mailbox for user (mode 660, owned by user , group ID mail)

$HOME/.mailrc Personal start-up ﬁle

/usr/share/lib/mailx.rc Global start-up ﬁle

$HOME/mbox Secondary storage ﬁle

/tmp/R[emqsx]* Temporary ﬁles