Preventing the Date, From, and To headers from being displayed

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Every message has several header fields at the top. These header fields are displayed when you read a message. You can use the ignore subcommand to suppress the display of header fields when a message is read.

The format for the ignore subcommand is:

ignore [FieldList]

The FieldList can consist of one or more field names that you want to ignore when you display a message. For example, if user Amy includes the following line in her .mailrc file:

ignore date from to

and the file /usr/share/lib/Mail.rc has the line:

ignore received message-id

the result of using the t subcommand is:

t 1
Message 1:
From george Wed Jan 6 9:47 CST 1988
Subject: Dept Meeting
Please plan to attend the department meeting on Friday
at 1:30 in the planning conference room. We will be
discussing the new procedures for using the project
planning program developed by our department.

The Received:, Date:, From:, Message-Id:, and To: fields are not displayed. To display these fields, use a T or P subcommand or the top subcommand.

Note: In the example, the From line is displayed. This is not the same as the From: field that has been listed in the FieldList for the ignore subcommand.