MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 1

mailx(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities mailx(1)
Message: Missing file name
Cause: You issued a command which requires a file name without providing one.
Action: Specify a file name.
Message: Missing number of hops after "-h"
Cause: You invoked mailx with the –h option without providing a value following it.
Action: Provide a value following the –h option.
Message: Missing subject after "-s"
Cause: You invoked mailx with the –s option without providing a subject string fol-
lowing it.
Action: Provide a subject string following the –s option.
Message: Missing user after "-u"
Cause: You invoked mailx with the –u option without providing a user name follow-
ing it.
Action: Provide a user name following the –u option.
Message: No applicable messages
Cause: You specified a message list that does not match any messages in the current
mailbox.
Action: No action required.
Message: No messages satisfy :colon modifier
Cause: You specified a colon modifier (one of :d, :n, :o, :r,or :u) as your mes-
sage list and none of the messages in the current mailbox matched it.
Action: No action required
Message: No previous file.
Cause: You used # to represent the file name of the previous file when there was no
previous file.
Action: Use a different file name indicator.
Message: No value set for folder variable"
Cause: You have not provided a value for the mailx variable
folder .
Action: Provide a value for the variable folder either in the start-up file or in com-
mand mode.
Message: Non-numeric second argument
Cause: The second argument in a message list was not numeric.
Action: Ensure that, when specifying a range of messages as arguments for a command,
you indicate the first and last message in the range with integers in the range 1
to the number of messages in the current mailbox.
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