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mail
— Send and Receive Mail
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Mail
is an enhanced version of standard /bin/mail
program.
As well as its predecessor, it can be used either in sending mode or
in reading mode. Mail
enters sending mode when one or more
email addresses were specified in this command line. In this mode the
program waits until user finishes composing the message, then attempts
to send it to the specified addresses and exits.
See Composing Mail, for a detailed description of this behavior.
If the command line contained no email addresses, mail
switches
to reading mode. In this mode it allows to read and manipulate the
contents of the user system mailbox. The --file (-f)
command line option allows to specify another mailbox name. For more
detail, see Reading Mail.
In addition to the Mailutils configuration file, mail
loads
the traditional ‘mailrc’-style configuration files. See Mail Configuration Files, for a detailed description of their format.
• Invoking Mail: | Command Line Options. | |
• Specifying Messages: | How to Specify Message Sets. | |
• Composing Mail: | Composing Mail. | |
• MIME: | How to Attach Files. | |
• Reading Mail: | Reading Mail. | |
• Scripting: | Scripting. | |
• Mail Variables: | How to Alter the Behavior of mail .
| |
• Mail Configuration Files: | Personal and System-wide Configuration Files. |
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