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- The Standard Unix Mail Program
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- This program has a large number of commands which are summarized
- below. It is line oriented and somewhat difficult to use. Keep
- these commands handy, but learn to use an easier program like Pine.
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- The command "mail" will display a list of your messages and invoke
- the mail program. The mail prompt is the ampersand: &.
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- Mail Commands By Function
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- Command What It Does
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- q Quit the mail program
- x Quit without making changes (like deletions)
- ? Display available mail commands
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- [number] Display message #[number]
- + (n) Display next message
- - Display previous message
- Enter Display current message (marked with a >)
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- m Compose a new message
- r Reply to message - to all recipients
- R Reply to message - to sender only
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- d Delete a message
- dp Delete current message display next message
- e Use text editor (vi) on message
- s [filename] Save message to filename
- u Undelete previously deleted message
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- The tilde escape commands may be entered while composing a message.
- They must be the first characters on a new line.
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- Tilde Escape Commands
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- ~? Display list of tilde escape commands
- ~e Invoke text editor
- ~f Read in the previous message
- ~h Edit header lines, one by one
- ~q Quit composition (same as ctrl-c twice)
- ~r Read in the contents of a file
- ~s Edit the subject line
- ~w Write the current message to a file
- ~! [command] Shell out and execute [command]
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- There are some wildcard characters you can use with mail
- commands, like "d *" means delete all messages, and "d ."
- means delete the current message. Use man mail to find out more.
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