whom - report to whom a message is addressed (only available
within the message handling system, mh)
whom [options] [file]
Specifies the alias file to be consulted by whom. If you
have used one or more aliases in your message header, whom
will consult the named file to find those aliases, and
will print the full addresses as its output. You can reference
more than one file, but each file name must be preceded
by the word -alias. See mh-alias(4) for more information.
Checks that the addresses are valid. whom makes
no guarantees that the addresses listed as being correct
are really deliverable: rather, an address being listed as
correct means that at the time that whom was run, the
address was thought to be deliverable by the transport
service. For local addresses, this means that the local
user does exist, and that the address was deliverable at
the time of checking. For network and uucp addresses, it
means that the syntax of the address is valid. Sets the
draft message to be the standard file draft in your Mail
directory. Specifies the folder in which whom searches
for the draft message. The default is to use the current
message in the named folder. You can select another message
by using the -draftmessage option. For more information
on using a draft folder, see comp(1). The -draftfolder
option is often set up in your user profile; see
mh_profile(4) for more information. Specifies the draft
message to be used. If you specify a folder with the
-draftfolder option, the -draftmessage option takes the
number of a message in that folder. If you do not specify
a folder, -draftmessage takes the name of a file. If you
do not give an absolute pathname (one beginning with a /
or or ), -draftmessage assumes that the file is located in
your Mail directory. Prints a list of the valid options
to this command. Specifies the format of the addresses to
be checked. The only value allowed is smtp, which checks
that addresses are deliverable over the standard mail system.
Additional values are supported only for use with
other mail systems.
The defaults for this command are:
file defaults to <mh-dir>/draft
-nocheck
-alias /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases
-mts smtp
The whom command is used to expand the headers of a message
into a set of addresses, and optionally to verify
that those addresses are deliverable at that time if
-check is given.
The whom command is often invoked as one of the options
offered by the whatnow program when you have finished
editing a draft message. See whatnow(1) for more details.
If you want to run whom on a named file, you can supply a
file argument. This argument allows you to specify a named
file; if you want to run whom on an existing message, use
the -draftfolder and -draftmessage options. If you do not
give an absolute pathname (one beginning with a / or or ),
whom assumes that the named file is in your current working
directory.
For this version, the -mts option only supports the value
smtp. Additional values are supported for use only with
other mail systems.
Path: To determine your MH directory (mh-dir)
Draft-Folder: To find the default draft-folder
postproc: Program to post the message
In the following example, whom would use the current message
in the +drafts folder: % whom -draftfolder +drafts
smith: address OK In the next example, whom searches for
message 2 in the folder +drafts: % whom -draftfolder
+drafts -draftmessage 2
davis@hostname: address OK
The user profile.
comp(1), mh-alias(4), post(8)
whom(1)
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