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35 provides a simple and friendly environment for sending and receiving mail.
36 It divides incoming mail into
37 its constituent messages and allows the user to deal with them
38 in any order. In addition, it provides a set of
40 like commands for manipulating messages and sending mail.
42 offers the user simple editing capabilities to ease the composition
43 of outgoing messages, as well as providing the ability to define and send
44 to names which address groups of users. Finally,
46 is able to send and receive messages across such networks as the
47 ARPANET, UUCP, and Berkeley network.
49 This document describes how to use the
51 program to send and receive messages. The reader is not assumed to
52 be familiar with other message handling systems, but should be
53 familiar with the \s-2UNIX\s0\**
55 \** \s-1UNIX\s0 is a trademark of Bell Laboratories.
57 shell, the text editor, and some of the common \s-2UNIX\s0 commands.
58 .q "The \s-2UNIX\s0 Programmer's Manual,"
59 .q "An Introduction to Csh,"
61 .q "Text Editing with Ex and Vi"
62 can be consulted for more information on these topics.
64 Here is how messages are handled:
65 the mail system accepts incoming
67 for you from other people
68 and collects them in a file, called your
70 When you login, the system notifies you if there are any messages
71 waiting in your system mailbox. If you are a
73 user, you will be notified when new mail arrives if you inform
74 the shell of the location of your mailbox. On NetBSD systems,
75 your system mailbox is located in the directory /var/mail
76 in a file with your login name. If your login name is
80 notify you of new mail by including the following line in your .cshrc
83 set mail=/var/mail/sam
85 When you read your mail using
87 it reads your system mailbox and separates that file into the
88 individual messages that have been sent to you. You can then
89 read, reply to, delete, or save these messages.
90 Each message is marked with its author and the date they sent it.