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whom(1)
NAME
  whom - report to whom a message is addressed (only available within the
  message handling system, mh)

SYNOPSIS
  whom [options] [file]

OPTIONS
  -alias aliasfile
      Specifies the alias file to be consulted by whom. If you have used one
      or more aliases in your message header, whom will consult the named
      file to find those aliases, and will print the full addresses as its
      output. You can reference more than one file, but each file name must
      be preceded by the word -alias. See mh-alias(4) for more information.

  -check

  -nocheck
      Checks that the addresses are valid.  whom makes no guarantees that the
      addresses listed as being correct are really deliverable: rather, an
      address being listed as correct means that at the time that whom was
      run, the address was thought to be deliverable by the transport
      service. For local addresses, this means that the local user does
      exist, and that the address was deliverable at the time of checking.
      For network and uucp addresses, it means that the syntax of the address
      is valid.

  -draft
      Sets the draft message to be the standard file draft in your Mail
      directory.

  -draftfolder folder

  -nodraftfolder
      Specifies the folder in which whom searches for the draft message. The
      default is to use the current message in the named folder. You can
      select another message by using the -draftmessage option. For more
      information on using a draft folder, see comp(1). The -draftfolder
      option is often set up in your user profile; see mh_profile(4) for more
      information.

  -draftmessage msg
      Specifies the draft message to be used. If you specify a folder with
      the -draftfolder option, the -draftmessage option takes the number of a
      message in that folder. If you do not specify a folder, -draftmessage
      takes the name of a file. If you do not give an absolute pathname (one
      beginning with a / or ./ or ../ ), -draftmessage assumes that the file
      is located in your Mail directory.

  -help
      Prints a list of the valid options to this command.

  -mts smtp
      Specifies the format of the addresses to be checked. The only value
      allowed is smtp, which checks that addresses are deliverable over the
      standard mail system. Additional values are supported only for use with
      other mail systems.

  The defaults for this command are:

       file defaults to <mh-dir>/draft
       -nocheck
       -alias  /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases
       -mts  smtp

DESCRIPTION
  The whom command is used to expand the headers of a message into a set of
  addresses, and optionally to verify that those addresses are deliverable at
  that time if -check is given.

  The whom command is often invoked as one of the options offered by the
  whatnow program when you have finished editing a draft message. See
  whatnow(1) for more details.

  If you want to run whom on a named file, you can supply a file argument.
  This argument allows you to specify a named file; if you want to run whom
  on an existing message, use the -draftfolder and -draftmessage options. If
  you do not give an absolute pathname (one beginning with a / or ./ or ../
  ), whom assumes that the named file is in your current working directory.

RESTRICTIONS
  For this version, the -mts option only supports the value smtp. Additional
  values are supported for use only with other mail systems.

PROFILE COMPONENTS
  Path: To determine your MH directory (mh-dir)

  Draft-Folder: To find the default draft-folder

  postproc: Program to post the message

EXAMPLES
   1.  In the following example, whom would use the current message in the
       +drafts folder:
	    % whom -draftfolder +drafts
	      smith: address OK

   2.  In the next example, whom searches for message 2 in the folder
       +drafts:
	    % whom -draftfolder +drafts -draftmessage 2
	      davis@hostname: address OK

FILES
  $HOME/.mh_profile
      The user profile.

SEE ALSO
  comp(1), mh-alias(4), post(8)

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