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AP(8)                  DragonFly System Manager's Manual                 AP(8)

NAME
       ap - parse addresses RFC 822-style

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/local/libexec/nmh/ap [-form formatfile] [-format string] [-width
            columns] [-version] [-help] addrs ...

DESCRIPTION
       Ap is a program that parses addresses according to the ARPA Internet
       standard.  It also understands many non-standard formats.  It is useful
       for seeing how nmh will interpret an address.

       The ap program treats each argument as one or more addresses, and
       prints those addresses out in the official RFC 822 format.  Hence, it
       is usually best to enclose each argument in quotes for the shell.

       To override the output format used by ap, the -format string or -format
       file switches are used.  This permits individual fields of the address
       to be extracted with ease.  The string is simply a format string, and
       the file is simply a format file.  See mh-format(5) for the details.

       In addition to the standard escapes, ap also recognizes the following
       additional escape:

            Escape  Returns  Description
            error   string   A diagnostic if the parse failed

       Here is the default format string used by ap:

            %<{error}%{error}: %{text}%|%(putstr(proper{text}))%>

       which says that if an error was detected, print the error, a `:', and
       the address in error.  Otherwise, output the RFC 822-proper format of
       the address.

FILES
       $HOME/.mh_profile   The user's profile.
       /usr/local/etc/nmh/mts.conf
                           The mts configuration file.

PROFILE COMPONENTS
       None

SEE ALSO
       dp(8)

       Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages (RFC 822)

DEFAULTS
       -format             As described above.
       -width              The width of the terminal.

CONTEXT
       None

nmh-1.6                        December 4, 2013                          AP(8)