INC(1)INC(1)NAMEinc - incorporate new mail
SYNOPSISinc [+folder] [-audit audit-file] [-noaudit] [-changecur]
[-nochangecur] [-form formatfile] [-format string]
[-file name] [-silent] [-nosilent] [-truncate]
[-notruncate] [-width columns] [-host hostname]
[-user username] [-pack file] [-nopack] [-kpop]
[-version] [-help]
DESCRIPTION
Inc incorporates mail from the user's incoming mail drop
into an nmh folder.
You may specify which folder to use with `+folder'. If no
folder is specified, then inc will use either the folder
given by a (non-empty) "Inbox:" entry in the user's pro-
file, or the folder named "inbox". If the specified (or
default) folder doesn't exist, the user will be queried
prior to its creation.
When the new messages are incorporated into the folder,
they are assigned numbers starting with the next highest
number for the folder. As the messages are processed, a
scan listing of the new mail is produced.
If the user's profile contains a "Msg-Protect: nnn" entry,
it will be used as the protection on the newly created
messages, otherwise the nmh default of 0644 will be used.
For all subsequent operations on these messages, this ini-
tially assigned protection will be preserved.
If the switch `-audit audit-file' is specified (usually as
a default switch in the profile), then inc will append a
header line and a line per message to the end of the spec-
ified audit-file with the format:
inc date
<scan line for first message>
<scan line for second message>
<etc.>
This is useful for keeping track of volume and source of
incoming mail. Eventually, repl, forw, comp, and dist may
also produce audits to this (or another) file, perhaps
with "Message-Id:" information to keep an exact correspon-
dence history. "Audit-file" will be in the user's nmh
directory unless a full path is specified.
Inc will incorporate even improperly formatted messages
into the user's nmh folder, inserting a blank line prior
to the offending component and printing a comment identi-
fying the bad message.
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In all cases, the user's mail drop will be zeroed, unless
the `-notruncate' switch is given.
If the profile entry "Unseen-Sequence" is present and
non-empty, then inc will add each of the newly incorpo-
rated messages to each sequence named by the profile
entry. Inc will not zero each sequence prior to adding
messages.
The interpretation of the `-form formatfile',
`-format string', and `-width columns' switches is the
same as in scan (1).
By using the `-file name' switch, one can direct inc to
incorporate messages from a file other than the user's
maildrop. Note that the name file will NOT be zeroed,
unless the `-truncate' switch is given.
If the environment variable $MAILDROP is set, then inc
uses it as the location of the user's maildrop instead of
the default (the `-file name' switch still overrides this,
however). If this environment variable is not set, then
inc will consult the profile entry "MailDrop" for this
information. If the value found is not absolute, then it
is interpreted relative to the user's nmh directory. If
the value is not found, then inc will look in the standard
system location for the user's maildrop.
The `-silent' switch directs inc to be quiet and not ask
any questions at all. This is useful for putting inc in
the background and going on to other things.
Using POP
inc will normally check local mail drops for mail, as
given above. But if the option "pophost:" is set in the
mts configuration file "mts.conf", or if the `-host host-
name' switch is given, then inc will query this POP ser-
vice host for mail to incorporate.
The default is for inc to assume that your account name on
the POP server is the same as your current username. To
specify a different username, use the `-user username'
switch.
When using POP, you will normally need to type the pass-
word for your account on the POP server, in order to
retrieve your messages. It is possible to automate this
process by creating a ".netrc" file containing your login
account information for this POP server. For each POP
server, this file should have a line of the following
form. Replace the words mypopserver, mylogin, and mypass-
word with your own account information.
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machine mypopserver login mylogin password mypassword
This ".netrc" file should be owned and readable only by
you.
If inc uses POP, then the `-pack file' switch is consid-
ered. If given, then inc simply uses the POP to packf (1)
the user's maildrop from the POP service host to the named
file. This switch is provided for those users who prefer
to use msh to read their maildrops.
For debugging purposes, you may give the switch `-snoop',
which will allow you to watch the POP transaction take
place between you and the POP server.
If nmh has been compiled with KPOP #defined, the `-kpop'
switch will allow inc to use Kerberized POP rather than
standard POP3 on a given invocation. If POPSERVICE was
also #defined to "kpop", inc will be hardwired to always
use KPOP.
FILES
$HOME/.mh_profile The user profile
/usr/contrib/mh/etc/mts.conf nmh mts configuration file
/var/mail/$USER Location of mail drop
PROFILE COMPONENTS
Path: To determine the user's nmh directory
Alternate-Mailboxes: To determine the user's mailboxes
Inbox: To determine the inbox, default "inbox"
Folder-Protect: To set mode when creating a new folder
Msg-Protect: To set mode when creating a new message and audit-file
Unseen-Sequence: To name sequences denoting unseen messages
SEE ALSOmhmail(1), scan(1), mh-mail(5), post(8)DEFAULTS
`+folder' defaulted by "Inbox" above
`-noaudit'
`-changecur'
`-format' defaulted as described above
`-nosilent'
`-truncate' if `-file name' not given, `-notruncate' otherwise
`-width' defaulted to the width of the terminal
`-nopack'
CONTEXT
The folder into which messages are being incorporated will
become the current folder. The first message incorporated
will become the current message, unless the `-nochangecur'
option is specified. This leaves the context ready for a
show of the first new message.
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INC(1)INC(1)BUGS
The argument to the `-format' switch must be interpreted
as a single token by the shell that invokes inc. There-
fore, one must usually place the argument to this switch
inside double-quotes.
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