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- MAIL USER COMMANDS MAIL(1)
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- NAME
- mail - new mail program
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- SYNOPSIS
- mail [receiver [subject [carbon-copies]]]
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- DESCRIPTION
- Mail is an interactive program for composing, sending and
- receiving electronic messages. Mail uses standard system
- editor to write and edit messages. Messages are be held in
- system mailbox for future use.
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- Incoming mail is stored in the system mailbox for each user.
- This file is named after the user (depending of the
- configuration, usually AXsh:usr/spool/mail/$USER). Actual
- mail file is always kept there but mail uses user's home
- directory to save temp files while sending new mail.
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- Un*X-style environment system in not implemented yet.
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- Un*X-style ~command keystrokes are not implemented because
- of the flexible editor used with mail.
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- The following command line keywords are implemented:
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- d Delete current message. There's no way to get it back!
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- h Prints active message headers. This is done automatically
- when mail is started without any further options and
- there appears to be mail in user's system mailbox.
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- m user Send mail to a specific user.
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- n Next message. Same as [RETURN].
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- q Quit mail. All the messages are saved in the user's
- mailbox (~/.mbox).
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- r Send reply to current message (reply to sender).
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- R Send reply. Your message is also delivered to user(s)
- specified in Cc: line (reply to all).
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- s file Saves current message to home directory (~/file).
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- x Quit. All the messages will be held in system mailbox
- as they are when this command is given.
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- AUTHORS
- Juha 'Comm' Tuominen
- Pasi 'Albert' Ojala
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- FILES
- $USER/.mailrc Contains last-read information
- AXsh:bin/mail Mail program
- AXsh:usr/spool/mail Directory for system mailbox files
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- SEE ALSO
- rn, editor
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- BUGS
- None known.
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