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MHOOK

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: MH.6.8
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NAME

mhook, rcvdist, rcvpack, rcvtty - MH receive-mail hooks

SYNOPSIS

/usr/lib/mh/rcvdist[-form formfile][switches for postproc]address ...[-help]

/usr/lib/mh/rcvpackfile[-help]

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

DESCRIPTION

A receive-mail hook is a program that is run whenever you receive amail message.You do NOT invoke the hook yourself,rather the hook is invoked on your behalf by yoursystem's Message Transport Agent. See slocal (1)for details on how to activate receive-mail hooks on your system.

Four programs are currently available as part of MH,rcvdist (redistribute incoming messages to additional recipients),rcvpack (save incoming messages in a packf'd file),and rcvtty (notify user of incoming messages).The fourth program,rcvstore (1) is described separately.They all reside in the /usr/lib/mh/ directory.

The rcvdist program will resend a copy of the message to all of theaddresses listed on its command line.It uses the format string facility described in mh-format (5).In addition, rcvdistalso recognizes the following additional component escape:

Escape    Returns  Descriptionaddresses string   the addresses to distribute to

The rcvpack program will append a copy of the message to the file listedon its command line.Its use is obsoleted by the ``file'' action of slocal.

The rcvtty program executes the named file with the message as itsstandard input,and writes the resulting output on your terminal.

If no file is specified, or is bogus, etc.,then rcvtty will instead write a one-line scan listing.Either the `-form formatfile' or `-format string' option may be used to override the default output format (see mh-format (5)).A newline is output before the message output, and the terminal bell is rungafter the output. The `-nonewline' and `-nobell' optionswill inhibit these functions.

In addition to the standard mh-format (5) escapes,rcvtty also recognizes the following additional component escapes:

Escape    Returns  Descriptionbody      string   the (compressed) first part of the bodydtimenow  date     the current datefolder    string   the name of the current folder

Normally, rcvtty obeyswrite permission as granted by mesg (1).With the `-biff' option, rcvtty will obey the notificationstatus set by biff (1) instead.If the terminal access daemon (TTYD) is available on your system,then rcvtty will give its output to the daemon for outputinstead of writing on the user's terminal.^/usr/lib/mh/mtstailor~^tailor file^$HOME/.maildelivery~^The file controlling local delivery^/usr/lib/mh/maildelivery~^Rather than the standard filercvstore (1), mh-format(5), slocal(1)Only two return codes are meaningful, others should be.

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