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NAME
DMail
SYNOPSIS
DMail go into mail shell if mail pending
DMail -O go into mail shell whether you have mail or not
DMail path mail somebody (go directly to mail editor)
DMail -f file use a file other than your default mail box
There are other options. To get a complete list of options
enter 'DMail -O' at a CLI prompt, then at the mail prompt
enter the 'help' command.
The file MAN:dmail.help must exist for dmail's online help
to work! This file exists in the boot floppy's man directory.
DESCRIPTION
DMail is an interactive mail editor that allows you to
view and respond to messages in your mail box as well
as generate new messages from scratch. DMail has a huge
number of commands and options ('set' variables) that cannot
be described in a manual entry like this so I leave those to
the online help capability.
The basic dmail commands are (and these may be abbreviated):
type [msgno] type a message
reply [msgno] reply to a message
Reply [msgno] reply to a message and include original text
mail path send new mail to somebody
d [msgno] delete a message
dt delete current msg and type next one
db delete current msg and type previous one
list list available messages
These are only a few commands out of many. Commands like
mail and reply bring up an interactive editor (default is DME
but you should be able to use your favorite editor... just
change the defaults in UULIB:Config).
When sending and replying to email, what you see from the
editor is pretty much what you get. If you quit out of the
editor without saving the email is aborted. If you save and
quit from the editor DMail will scan the message and figure
out who to send it to by extracting addresses out of the
To:, Cc:, and Bcc: fields. DMail then runs Sendmail to
actually send the message (which may wind up queueing it
via UUCP to somewhere else).
You list the primary recipients of the message in the To:
field, separated by commas. you may continue an address
list like this:
To: blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
Cc:
The Cc: field lists carbon-copy recipients of the message...
people you want to see the message but for which the message
is not primarily meant for. This can be left blank or
deleted.
The Bcc: field lists blind-carbon-copy recipients of the
message. Specifically, the message gets sent to these
people but the Bcc: field itself is NOT propogated, so nobody
but you knows that the message was also sent to these
people.
Every message should have a Subject: field, usually a one
liner that describes the subject of the message. When replying
to a message you usually keep the original message's Subject:
line and prepend an 'Re:' to it... normally you do NOT allow
Re:'s to build up. I.E. Re: Re: Re: <original subj> is not
considered proper.
When using the upper case Reply that includes the original
text of the message, please prune out as much as you can to
decrease redundant bandwidth. The original most likely has
a copy of the original message anyway and the idea is to
simply provide a soft reminder to jog the originator's memory.
A BLANK LINE ALWAYS SEPARATES THE HEADER LIST FROM THE MESSAGE
BODY!!!
ADDRESSES
DMail attempts to pick the proper return path when you reply
to a message and place that path into the To: field for you.
DMail does not always get it right. Sometimes it is not
possible to get it right. Generally, bang (!) only paths
are safe. A bang path lists the machines the message to
reach through with the last field being the user on the
destination machine. For example:
To: sorinc!pacbell!nobody
Assuming I talk UUCP to sorinc directly my message will be
sent first to the machine sorinc, then the machine pacbell,
and then placed in 'nobody's mailbox on pacbell.
When at all possible finding a fully domained machine in a
path makes email all the more reliable. For example,
To: pacbell.pacbell.com!sorinc!overload!dillon
This is the path to my amiga. Note that the first element
in the path is a fully domain'd machine (an address with
dots in it). If your Amiga talks to a machine that understands
domains (say you connect to a university machine), and assuming
you set your 'DefaultNode' entry in UULIB:Config to this
machine, a message addressed as above will get to me.
BADLY FORMED ADDRESSES
Unfortunately, USENET and INTERNET addresses do not mix well.
On the INTERNET and address like this:
a!b!user@foo.com maps to foo.com!a!b!user
Whereas the same address in USENET format:
a!b!user@foo.com maps to a!b!foo.com!user
Your best bet is to look at the 'Received:' fields in the
mail header (the HEADER command in DMail, but read the online
help for the HEADER command before using it). These fields
tell you exactly which machines the message got routed
through and the order in which it was routed. Try your
best to construct a bang (!) only path to the destination.
Sending mail directly to an arbitrary address usually doesn't
work. For example, mail to fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
will fail utterly. On the otherhand, using the path:
<adjacent-big-machine>!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!mcdphx!estinc!fnf
will work assuming <adjacent-big-machine> understands domains.
P.S. if your DefaultNode entry in your UULIB:Config file is
set properly and assuming the later about your connection to the
outside world, you can just email directly through an arbitrary
domained name:
cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!mcdphx!estinc!fnf
Of course, if you have UUCP setup in a small network between
a few friends and none of you have access to a major USENET
node then you cannot email outside your little group.
Refer to the Domains manual page for information on using
the UULIB:Domain file to simplify addressing.