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- .sh 1 Introduction
- .pp
- .i Mail
- provides a simple and friendly environment for sending and receiving mail.
- It divides incoming mail into
- its constituent messages and allows the user to deal with them
- in any order. In addition, it provides a set of
- .i ed -\c
- like commands for manipulating messages and sending mail.
- .i Mail
- offers the user simple editing capabilities to ease the composition
- of outgoing messages, as well as providing the ability to define and send
- to names which address groups of users. Finally,
- .i Mail
- is able to send and receive messages across such networks as the
- ARPANET, UUCP, and Berkeley network.
- .pp
- This document describes how to use the
- .i Mail
- program to send and receive messages. The reader is not assumed to
- be familiar with other message handling systems, but should be
- familiar with the \s-2UNIX\s0\**
- .(f
- \** \s-1UNIX\s0 is a trademark of Bell Laboratories.
- .)f
- shell, the text editor, and some of the common \s-2UNIX\s0 commands.
- .q "The \s-2UNIX\s0 Programmer's Manual,"
- .q "An Introduction to Csh,"
- and
- .q "Text Editing with Ex and Vi"
- can be consulted for more information on these topics.
- .pp
- Here is how messages are handled:
- the mail system accepts incoming
- .i messages
- for you from other people
- and collects them in a file, called your
- .i "system mailbox" .
- When you login, the system notifies you if there are any messages
- waiting in your system mailbox. If you are a
- .i csh
- user, you will be notified when new mail arrives if you inform
- the shell of the location of your mailbox. On version 7 systems,
- your system mailbox is located in the directory /usr/spool/mail
- in a file with your login name. If your login name is
- .q sam,
- then you can make
- .i csh
- notify you of new mail by including the following line in your .cshrc
- file:
- .(l
- set mail=/usr/spool/mail/sam
- .)l
- When you read your mail using
- .i Mail ,
- it reads your system mailbox and separates that file into the
- individual messages that have been sent to you. You can then
- read, reply to, delete, or save these messages.
- Each message is marked with its author and the date they sent it.
-