z/OS V1R9.0 UNIX System Services Command ... - Christian Grothoff

mailx
Files
Localization
mail. The default is /usr/lib/tsmail. It can be any command that takes
addresses on the command line and message contents on standard input.
sendwait
When sending a message through a network, mailx waits for the mail
server to finish before returning to your session. Normally, it just submits the
message to the server and then returns immediately. The default is
nosendwait.
showto
When displaying a header summary, displays the recipient’s name instead
of the author’s for messages where you are the author. The default is
noshowto.
sign Contains a string that is inserted into a message when you use the input
mode ~a subcommand. mailx interprets \n and \t in this string as the
newline and tab characters, respectively. The default is nosign.
Sign Contains a string that is inserted into a message when you use the input
mode ~A subcommand. The default is noSign.
toplines
Gives the number of header lines that the top subcommand is to display.
The default is 5.
mailx uses the following files:
/etc/mailx.rc
Systemwide startup file.
$MAILRC
Personal startup file. By default, MAILRC has the value $HOME/.mailrc.
$HOME/mbox
Default location to save read messages. You can choose a different file by
assigning the filename to the environment variable MBOX.
$MAILDIR
Directory containing system mailboxes. By default, this is /usr/mail. The
system programmer must create the MAILDIR directory if it does not
already exist. See z/OS UNIX System Services Planning for information on
creating the MAILDIR directory.
$HOME/dead.letter
Default location to save partial letters.
mailx uses the following localization environment variables:
v LANG
v LC_ALL
v LC_CTYPE
v LC_MESSAGES
v LC_TIME
v LC_SYNTAX
v NLSPATH
See Appendix F for more information.
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