Name

formail

Synopsis

formail [options]

Formats a mail message on standard input according to the options, placing the new message on standard output (where it can be appended to a file, piped to sendmail -t -oi, etc.).

Options

-r

Generate a reply, deleting existing headers and body.

-X | -x header

Retain/just extract the named message header (can be used more than once).

-k

Keep the message body when using -r or -x.

-a header : text

Append the specified header if it is not already present (-A appends unconditionally).

-I header : text

Replace the existing header line (-i renames the current one).

-z

Clean up header formatting.