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- GETTING_STARTED
-
- To become familiar with the Mail Utility, use the MAIL commands discussed in
- this section. These commands enable you to move around within the Mail Utility.
- For more detailed information about the Mail Utility, see the VAX/VMS Mail
- Utility Reference Manual.
-
- These are the MAIL commands discussed in this section:
-
- SEND DIRECTORY EXTRACT
- READ[/NEW] DELETE PRINT
- FORWARD MOVE HELP
- REPLY SELECT EXIT
-
- The first command to try is the SEND command. Try sending a message to yourself.
- Enter the SEND command and press RETURN. Enter your own user name at the prompt
- and press RETURN. Enter a subject at the prompt and press RETURN again. The
- following example shows how to use the SEND command:
-
- MAIL> SEND See <SEND>
- To: PIERCE
- Subj: Sailing
- Enter your message below. Press CTRL/Z when complete,
- or CTRL/C to quit:
-
- When you finish entering the text of your message, press CTRL/Z.
-
- Because you are sending the message to yourself, MAIL signals that you have
- just received a new message by displaying the following message:
-
- New mail on node FLAXEN from PIERCE
- MAIL>
-
- Now, you are ready to use the READ command. To read the message you just
- sent to yourself, enter the READ command with the /NEW qualifier and
- press RETURN as follows:
-
- MAIL> READ/NEW See <READ>
-
- You must specify the /NEW qualifier with the READ command when you want to read
- new mail that arrives while you are in the Mail Utility. When you are not in
- the Mail Utility and you receive new mail, invoke MAIL to read the new message,
- you can enter the READ command without the /NEW qualifier.
- Or, if you wish to read mail that you have already read, you can enter
- the READ command.
-
- You can forward a copy of a mail message to another user by entering the
- FORWARD command. MAIL prompts you for the name of the user to receive
- the message.
- Try forwarding a copy of the message you just received back to yourself.
- Enter your own user name and press RETURN. Supply a subject when prompted and
- press RETURN. MAIL signals that you have just received a new message.
-
- Enter the READ/NEW command to read the forwarded message.
- When you receive a message and want to respond to it, enter the REPLY
- command and press RETURN. MAIL displays the header information as follows:
-
- MAIL> REPLY See <REPLY>
- To: FLAXEN::PIERCE
- Subj: RE: Using the REPLY command
- Enter your message below. Press CTRL/Z when complete,
- or CTRL/C to quit:
-
- When you finish typing your response, press CTRL/Z.
-
- Again, MAIL signals that you have just received a new message. To read
- the message, enter the READ/NEW command.
-
- When you want to see a list of all the mail messages you have collected,
- enter the DIRECTORY command and press RETURN. MAIL displays a list like
- the following:
- See <DIRECTRY>
-
- # From Date Subject
-
- 1 FORBES 1-JUN-1988 How to Write a memo
-
- 2 STELLA::BERT 2-JUN-1988 Using the Printer
-
- 3 FROST::BASTIEN 4-JUN-1988 Chicken Kiev
-
-
- When you want to remove a message, use the DELETE command. You can either enter
- the DELETE command while you are reading the message or you can enter the
- DELETE command followed by the number of the message you want to remove. To
- remove the second message in the list, enter the following command line:
-
- MAIL> DELETE 2 See <DELETE>
-
- If you enter the DIRECTORY command after you have deleted a message (or
- messages), you see the messages marked for deletion, as follows:
-
- # From Date Subject
-
- 1 FORBES 1-JUN-1988 How to Write a Memo
-
- 2 (Deleted)
-
- 3 FROST::BASTIEN 4-JUN-1988 Chicken Kiev
-
-
- When you exit from MAIL, the messages marked for deletion disappear. The Mail
- Utility allows you to organize your messages by moving them into folders. To
- move a message to a folder, enter the MOVE command (while you are reading the
- message) and press RETURN.
- See <FOLDERS>
-
- MAIL prompts you for a folder name. Type any name, for example, REVIEWS
- or JOKES or STATUS_REPORTS. MAIL also prompts you for a file name. You
- can specify the default mail file by pressing RETURN.
-
- A sample session demonstrating the MOVE command follows:
-
- MAIL> 2 See <MOVE>
- MAIL> MOVE
- _Folder: WINNERS
- _File: (RET)
-
- Folder WINNERS does not exist.
- Do you want to create it (Y/N, default is N)? Y
- %MAIL-I-NEWFOLDER, folder WINNERS created
-
- In this example, the folder name is WINNERS and the default mail file is
- specified. If the folder you name does not exist, MAIL asks you if you want to
- create it.
-
- Once you have created folders, you may want to move between them. To move from
- one folder to another, use the SELECT command.
-
- If you want to move to the WINNERS folder, enter the SELECT command as follows:
-
- MAIL> SELECT WINNERS
-
- %MAIL-I-SELECTED, 1 message selected
-
- In this example, MAIL displays a message indicating the number of messages in
- the folder.
-
- To move to a folder named JOKES, enter the following command line:
-
- MAIL> SELECT JOKES
-
- %MAIL-I-SELECTED, 32 messages selected
-
-
- You can enter the DIRECTORY command to see a list of the messages in the
- folder you just selected.
-
- When you want to move a mail message from your mail file to a sequential file
- that you can access from the DCL command level, use the EXTRACT command. Enter
- the EXTRACT command (while you are reading the message) and press RETURN.
-
- MAIL prompts you for the name of a file. Then, when you exit from MAIL, the file
- is listed in your directory. The following example shows how to use the EXTRACT
- command to move a mail message to a file named GAMES.DAT.
-
- MAIL> EXTRACT
- _File: GAMES.DAT
-
- %MAIL-I-CREATED, DISK:[BERGMAN]GAMES.DAT;1 created
-
- MAIL>
- To print a hard copy of a mail message, enter the PRINT command while you are
- reading the message and press RETURN.
-
- (When you exit from MAIL, the message enters the print queue.)
-
- The following example shows how to make a hard copy of message #4 by using the
- PRINT command:
-
- MAIL> 4
-
- #4 4-AUG-1988 09:39:20 MAIL
- From: SPARTA::FELLINI
- To: MARSTON
- Subj: Rydell's Reasons
- In reference to the meeting of July 26, I would like to
- explain Rydell's opinion more fully...
-
- MAIL> PRINT
-
- For more information about each MAIL command, you can keep using the HELP
- facility provided in MAIL or you can see the VAX/VMS Mail Utility Reference
- Manual.
-
- When you are ready to leave MAIL, enter the EXIT command and press RETURN. Any
- messages marked for deletion disappear. Any messages marked for printing enter
- the print queue and the following message is displayed:
-
- MAIL> EXIT See <EXIT>
- Job MAIL (queue ATLAS_PRINT, entry 43) started on
- QUEUE$LPA0