FROM(1B) BSD Compatibility Package Commands FROM(1B)

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

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

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.

The following option is supported:

-s sender

Only display headers for mail sent by sender.

See largefile(7) for the description of the behavior of from when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).

/var/mail/*

biff(1B), mail(1B), attributes(7), largefile(7)

January 28, 2004 OmniOS