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Section: SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands (1B)
Updated: 28 Jan 2004
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NAME

from - display the sender and date of newly-arrived mail messages  

SYNOPSIS

/usr/ucb/from [-s sender] [username]  

DESCRIPTION

The from utility prints out the mail header lines in your mailbox file to show you who your mail is from. If username is specified, username's mailbox is examined instead of your own.  

OPTIONS

The following option is supported:

-s sender Only display headers for mail sent by sender.

 

USAGE

See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of from when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2 **31
 bytes).  

FILES

/var/mail/*

 

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWscpu

 

SEE ALSO

biff(1B), mail(1B), attributes(5), largefile(5)

 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
USAGE
FILES
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO
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