RCVDIST(1)

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version 1.8 · 7 versions
, in alpine 3.24, epel 10, epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44

RCVDIST(1) 💌✨

okay bestie, this is a page from the General Commands Manual — meet rcvdist, the lil icon that receives your mail and fans it out to everybody on your list. no cap. 🫶

NAME 🎀

rcvdist — asynchronously receive and distribute new email

SYNOPSIS ✨

/usr/libexec/nmh/rcvdist [-help] [-version] [-form formfile]
     [switches for postproc] address1 ...

DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the vibe: rcvdist takes a message on its standard input and resends a copy of that message to literally every address you listed on the command line. it's giving "one message in, many messages out." main character distribution energy. 👑

the format of the Resent-xxx header fields is specified by the form file rcvdistcomps. and bestie, listen — if a file named rcvdistcomps exists in your nmh directory, that one wins and it gets used instead of the default file. want a totally different one? just say -form formfile and pass an alternate forms file. slay. 💅

the rcvdistcomps file uses the format string facility described over in mh-format(5). and on top of all the standard format escapes, rcvdist also recognizes this one extra component escape:

  • addresses — returns a string — the addresses to distribute to 🌸

by default, rcvdist uses the post program to deliver the message. but lowkey you can switch that up by defining the postproc profile component. your delivery, your rules. ✨

FILES 🦋

  • /etc/nmh/rcvdistcomps — Default message skeleton
  • <mh-dir>/rcvdistcomps — User's message skeleton
  • /etc/nmh/mts.conf — nmh mts configuration file
  • /etc/nmh/maildelivery — Default delivery file
  • $HOME/.maildelivery — User's delivery file

SEE ALSO 🌈

rcvpack(1), rcvstore(1), rcvtty(1), slocal(1), mh-format(5)

okay that's the whole page, no notes, you ate. 🍓

this has been nmh-1.8, dated 1999-04-30 — yeah she's an icon from the 90s and she's still serving. periodt. 💜✨

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