BINMAIL

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mail with no argument prints a user's mail, message-by-message, in last-in, first-out order; the optional argument + displays the mail messages in first-in, first-out order. For each message, it reads a line from the standard input to direct disposition of the message.

newline

Go on to next message.

d

Delete message and go on to the next.

p

Print message again.

-

Go back to previous message.

s [ file ] ...

Save the message in the named files (`mbox' default).

w [ file ] ...

Save the message, without a header, in the named files (`mbox' default).

m [ person ] ...

Mail the message to the named persons (yourself is default).

EOT (control-D)

Put unexamined mail back in the mailbox and stop.

q

Same as EOT.

!command

Escape to the Shell to do command.

*

Print a command summary.

An interrupt normally terminates the mail command; the mail file is unchanged. The optional argument -i tells mail to continue after interrupts.

When persons are named, mail takes the standard input up to an end-of-file (or a line with just `.') and adds it to each person's `mail' file. The message is preceded by the sender's name and a postmark. Lines that look like postmarks are prepended with `>'. A person is usually a user name recognized by login(1). To denote a recipient on a remote system, prefix person by the system name and exclamation mark (see uucp(1C)).

The -f option causes the named file, for example, `mbox', to be printed as if it were the mail file.

When a user logs in he is informed of the presence of mail.  

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Normally anybody can read your mail, unless it is sent by xsend(1). An installation can overcome this by making mail a set-user-id command that owns the mail directory.

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