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.PP |
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.B fmail |
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formats text read on standard input into a mail message |
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ready to be sent to a mail sending agent. |
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ready to be sent to a mail submission agent. |
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.PP |
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The formatting process includes: encoding the text body in |
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.I Quoted-Printable\fR; |
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creating appropriate MIME parts for attachments and |
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OpenPGP signature; encoding attachments (in |
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.I Base64 |
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or |
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.I Quoted-Printable |
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depending on their type); adding appropriate mail headers. |
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.PP |
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The resulting message is printed on standard output and can |
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be piped directly to a program such as |
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.B sendmail(8) |
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to effectively send the message to a mail server. |
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.PP |
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The first lines of the input message, up to the first blank |
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line, are treated as mail headers; everything from the first |
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blank line to the end of file is treated as the mail body. |
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.SH OPTIONS |
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.TP |
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