Here is an example .mailrc -- # mail defaults set folder=mail log=+Log attachments=+Att followup=+From set autoprint dot flipr header headerbotch searchheaders set hold keep quiet nosave showto set crt=${LINES} indentprefix="> " set askheaders="subject" editheaders="subject cc" set fixedheaders="Organization: AT&T Labs Research" set prompt="& " more="\E[7m More\E[m" rule="--------" set DEAD=+dead.letter EDITOR=ed PAGER=more VISUAL=vi set local=${domain} spam spamlog=+spam set [email protected] set [email protected] retain subject newsgroups if f ~/.aliases alias < ~/.aliases endif