RCVDIST(1mh)

🌸 NAME 🌸

rcvdist — asynchronously receive and distribute new email 💌 (yep, she's from the 1mh manual section, iykyk)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

/usr/lib/mh/rcvdist [-help] [-version] [-form formfile] [switches for
     postproc] address1 ...

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Okay so rcvdist</p> is literally the chillest little mail goblin: it takes a message on its standard input and resends a copy of that message to every single address you listed on its command line. That's it, that's the whole vibe. It doesn't wait around — it's asynchronous, bestie, it does its thing and ghosts. 👻

The format of the Resent-xxx header fields is specified by the form file rcvdistcomps. And here's the cute part: if a file named rcvdistcomps exists in the user's nmh directory, that one gets used instead of the default file. Main character energy, honestly. 🎀

You may also specify an alternate forms file with -form formfile.

The rcvdistcomps file uses the format string facility described in mh-format(5). And on top of the standard format escapes, rcvdist also recognizes this one extra component escape, which is lowkey the star of the show:

• addresses — returns string: the addresses to distribute to 🫶

By default, rcvdist uses the post program to deliver the message, although — plot twist — this can be changed by defining the postproc profile component. ✨

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🗂️ FILES 🗂️

• /etc/nmh/rcvdistcomps — Default message skeleton 💀
• or <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

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

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

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not me being obsessed with a mail utility fr fr 😭 go read the friends, they're all iconic too

That's a wrap, bestie — this page is from nmh-1.8, dated 1999-04-30, and yeah it's literally RCVDIST(1mh). She's vintage and she still ate. 💜👑