mdoc(7) police: tidy up.

Add support for ~_, ~x, ~i, ~a, ~A, ~<, and ~r! tilde-escapes. Improve
tilde-escapes documentation.

Mostly obtained from: NetBSD

Sync with most of NetBSD's changes, including:

*) Sync with 4.4BSD-Lite2
*) Set usecs for utimes()
*) Add 'inc' command and 'autoinc' option that check for new mail
manually and automatically

Sync with most of NetBSD's changes, including:

*) Sync with 4.4BSD-Lite2
*) Set usecs for utimes()
*) Add 'inc' command and 'autoinc' option that check for new mail
manually and automatically, respectively
*) Use POSIX signal handling and tty semantics
*) Handle long lines correctly when paging messages
*) Add ability to explicitly search 'To:' line
*) Various manpage cleanups
*) Support overriding '~/.mailrc' with $MAILRC
*) Support 'askbcc' and 'asksub' options
*) Fix various bugs

Reviewed by: ru (mail.1)
Obtained from: NetBSD

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mdoc(7) police: protect trailing full stops of abbreviations
with a trailing zero-width space: `e.g.\&'.

Remove whitespace at EOL.

mdoc(7) police: removed HISTORY info from the .Os call.

mdoc(7) police: fixed formatting bugs in rev. 1.27.

Add the -E flag to not send messages that have an empty body. This is
useful for piping cron script error output by mail.

PR: bin/9494
Obtained from: NetBSD
MFC after: 2 weeks

Respect REPLYTO in mailrc.

PR: bin/8322
Submitted by: Philipp Mergenthaler <philipp.mergenthaler@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
MFC after: 2 weeks

Eliminate mdocNG warnings caused by misplaced or extraneous macro calls.

mdoc(7) police: split punctuation characters + misc fixes.

mdoc(7) police: fixed broken references.

Prepare for mdoc(7)NG.

mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.

Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.

Complete migration of aliases file to /etc/mail/aliases.
The maintainers of share/examples/diskless/README.TEMPLATING and mergemaster
have been contacted so those may be updated as well.

Remove single-space hard sentence breaks. These degrade the quality
of the typeset output, tend to make diffs harder to read and provide
bad examples for new-comers to mdoc.

Document startup behaviour of mail(1).

PR: docs/1577
Submitted by: Joseph Koshy <koshy@india.hp.com>

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$

Document the use of sendmail options on the commandline.

PR: 4778
Submitted by: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>

Teach boring old mail(1) about the use of the REPLYTO environment
variable which is de-facto standard for MUAs.

Teach bomail to generate an in-reply-to header so threading MUAs and
mail->news gatewa

Teach boring old mail(1) about the use of the REPLYTO environment
variable which is de-facto standard for MUAs.

Teach bomail to generate an in-reply-to header so threading MUAs and
mail->news gateways won't lose context.

While i was at it, removed two gratuitous standard violations for
functions starting with an underscore.

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Balance parentheses around command abbreviations.
PR: 4888
Submitted by: h-nokubi@nmit.tmg.nec.co.jp

Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$

Document the "more" command.

Submitted by: Julian Coleman <j.d.coleman@ncl.ac.uk>
Obtained from: NetBSD-bugs PR# 3104

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.

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