from(1B)

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 ( 2³¹ bytes).

Files

/var/mail/*

Attributes

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

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE Availability compatibility/ucb

See also

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

Notes

This command is obsolete and will be removed in a future release of Oracle Solaris.