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Following commands quit the program:
Terminates the session. If mail
was operating upon user’s system
mailbox, then all undeleted and unsaved messages that have been read and
are not marked with hold flag are saved to the user’s mbox file
($HOME/mbox). The messages, marked with delete
are removed.
The program exits to the Shell, unless saving the mailbox fails, in
which case user can escape with the exit command.
Program exits to the Shell without modifying the mailbox it operates upon.
Typing EOF (‘C-D’) alone is equivalent to ‘quit’.