Reading Mail with mail

12.D Using Elm 12. email 12.C.1 Composing a Message in Pine

§ 12.C.2: Reading Mail with mail

Reading your mail with the mail utility is easy:

> mail

No mail

As usual, we have no mail.

If you do have mail, the mail utility displays a one line entry:

 
"/var/spool/mail/john": 2 messages 2 new
>N  1 goldie             Tue Nov 12 10:37  11/301  "meow"
 N  2 boru               Tue Nov 12 10:37  12/300  "woof"
Message #m:

Here are some responses for you to try:

Control Commands:
?	List all subcommands
q	Quit - apply mailbox commands entered this session
x	Quit - restore mailbox to original state
! [cmd]	Start a shell, run [cmd], and return to mailbox
cd [dir]	Change directory to [dir] or $HOME
Display Commands:
t [msg-list]	Display messages in [msg_list] or current message
n	Display next message
f [msg-list]	Display headings of messages
h [num]	Display headings of group containing message [num]
Message Handling:
e [num]	Edit message [num] (default editor is ex)
d [msg-list]	Delete messages in [msg-list] or current message
u [msg_list]	Recall deleted messages
s [msg-list]	Append messages (with headings) to
w [msg-list]	Append messages (text only) to
pre [msg-list]	Keep messages in system mailbox
Creating New Mail:
m [addrlist]	Create/send new message to addresses in
r [msg-list]	Send reply to senders and recipients of messages
R [msg-list]	Send reply only to senders of messages
a	Display list of aliases and their addresses

12.D Using Elm 12. email 12.C.1 Composing a Message in Pine

Comments and questions to Dr. Elias N. Houstis at enh@cs.purdue.edu.