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mail
The UNIX mail system provides you with the capability to send
electronic mail messages to the users on your system, and as you
will discover later, to the users on other systems as well!
At login, the recipient will receive the notice: You have mail
The simplest syntax for sending mail is: mail user
The command for processing the received mail is: mail
Let us use the mail system, first by sending mail to the user jean
and then participating with jean in reading the mail.
Sending mail to a user practice, - 1.6.4.0.1
Assume that you are the user phillip and you want to send
a mail message to jean. Please begin by typing mail
followed by the recipient's login name.
$PROMPT$
That is correct!
You've got it on the 2nd try.
Good, you understand the concept.
Please type mail jean
Please type mail jean
I will help you this time.
$PROMPT$
FORGET1
Observe the result on the terminal!
mail jean
Subject:
Let us assume that the subject is a meeting announcement.
Let us specify this ...
Subject: April 10th Meeting
At this point you may type the message, extending over several lines.
You may not edit any line that you have already terminated
with a <CR>!
We'll specify the mail message!
The organizational meeting for the
next computer show in Europe will
take place on the 10th of April,
and you are invited to attend!
Phillip Gartwell
Terminate the message by pressing CONTROL-d, i.e.:
$
Upon login the user jean will see a message on the screen ...
You have mail
$
Reading mail command practice, - 1.6.4.0.2
If you were Jean, in order to process your new
mail you would need to enter mail. Please do so.
That is correct!
You've got it on the 2nd try.
Good, you understand the concept.
Please type mail
Please type mail
I will help you this time.
$PROMPT$
FORGET2
Observe the result on the terminal!
mail
At this point the list of the mail messages will be displayed in
the reverse order that they were received. The sender, the time,
the recipient and the subject will be displayed, i.e.,
From: phillip, Mon Mar 31, 1988.
To: jean
Subject: April 10th Meeting:
By pressing <CR> you can
scroll through the mail messages, i.e.,
The organizational meeting for the
next computer show in Europe will
take place on the 10th of April,
and you are invited to attend!
Phillip Gartwell
You may save a message by typing s, you may delete a
mail message by typing d, you may send a reply by typing
r, you may get a summary of mail commands by
typing ?, or you may exit by typing q.