MCOM(1)

💌 MCOM(1) — General Commands Manual — compose, forward, bounce, reply, send messages

okay so bestie, welcome to the MCOM(1) page 💖 this is the group chat where mcom, mfwd, mbnc, and mrep do their thing. no cap, every flag matters, so let’s go.

🌸 NAME 🌸

mcom, mfwd, mbnc, mrep — compose, forward, bounce, reply, send messages

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mcom [-header values ...] [recipients ...]
mcom -r [draft]
mrep [-noquote] [-header values ... --] [msg]
mfwd [-r] [-header values ... --] [msgs ...]
mbnc [-header values ... --] [msg]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

mcom creates a new draft message and opens it in an editor. After editing, a loop is started where you can send, re-edit or cancel the message. Use mcom -r to resume the editing of a draft; by default, the last modified draft will be edited. 💅

mrep creates the draft such that the message will be a reply to msg (or the current message). Unless -noquote is passed, it will contain the original mail quoted. 🫶

mfwd creates the draft with a subject and body appropriate for forwarding the message. By default, messages are forwarded verbatim as MIME message/rfc822 attachments. Use -r to forward as mshow(1) rendered plain text, using RFC 934 message encapsulation. 🦋

mbnc creates the draft from the original msg (or the current message) including headers, and adds a Resent-To header, to which the message will be bounced directly. (See mmsg(7) for the message argument syntax.) 💌

All commands can take optional header flags (which consist of two or more characters) to prefill header fields, e.g. you can use mcom -to merrilyn -cc elea becci -subject 'Party invite' to create a draft with the To, Cc and Subject fields already set. The flag -body file can be used to prepopulate the draft for mcom and mrep with the contents of file. ✨

Note that these flags apply to all arguments after them (e.g. mcom -attach *.c works), so you need to use -- when you want to use this feature together with mrep, mfwd, or mbnc. 🔥

If the flag -send is passed, the message will be sent directly using the data on the command line, and no editor or edit loop will be run. 👑

💅 MENU COMMANDS 💅

• s — Send the message. The MIME version will be used when one has been created.
• c — Cancel sending and quit, after displaying the filename of the saved draft.
• m — Run mmime(1) on the draft, and print the result of mshow -t.
• e — Re-edit the draft.
• d — Delete the draft and quit.
• p — Preview the draft, using mshow(1).

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• EDITOR, VISUAL — Editor used to compose messages. (Default: vi(1))
• MBLAZE — Directory containing mblaze configuration files. (Default: $HOME/.mblaze)

🍓 FILES 🍓

• snd.* — Draft messages, kept in current directory. This can be configured in mblaze-profile(5).
• ${MBLAZE:-$HOME/.mblaze}/headers — Default headers for each message.
• ${MBLAZE:-$HOME/.mblaze}/signature or ~/.signature — Default signature.

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

The mcom utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• mmime(1), mblaze-profile(5), mmsg(7)

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>

💜 LICENSE 💜

mcom is in the public domain.

To the extent possible under law, the creator of this work has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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💖 okay bestie, that’s the whole page — from Debian, dated April 21, 2021, and the manual is MCOM(1). periodt. 💅