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authorMike Heffner <mikeh@FreeBSD.org>2001-06-28 02:40:07 +0000
committerMike Heffner <mikeh@FreeBSD.org>2001-06-28 02:40:07 +0000
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Add the -E flag to not send messages that have an empty body. This is
useful for piping cron script error output by mail. PR: bin/9494 Obtained from: NetBSD MFC after: 2 weeks
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=78904
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/mail/mail.1')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/mail/mail.19
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1 b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
index ed67cc3b8af3..ddbf34a8c6e1 100644
--- a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
+++ b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
.Nd send and receive mail
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
-.Op Fl iInv
+.Op Fl EiInv
.Op Fl s Ar subject
.Op Fl c Ar cc-addr
.Op Fl b Ar bcc-addr
@@ -50,11 +50,11 @@
.Ar sendmail-option ...
.Oc
.Nm
-.Op Fl iInNv
+.Op Fl EiInNv
.Fl f
.Op Ar name
.Nm
-.Op Fl iInNv
+.Op Fl EiInNv
.Op Fl u Ar user
.Sh INTRODUCTION
.Nm Mail
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ with lines replaced by messages.
Verbose mode.
The details of
delivery are displayed on the user's terminal.
+.It Fl E
+Don't send messages with an empty body. This is useful
+for piping errors from cron scripts.
.It Fl i
Ignore tty interrupt signals.
This is