MAIL.1
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- MAIL(1) Minix Programmer's Manual MAIL(1)
- NAME
- mail - send and receive electronic mail
- SYNOPSIS
- mail [-dpqrv] [-f file] [user]
- OPTIONS
- -d Force use of the shell variable MAILER
- -f Use file instead of /usr/spool/mail/user as mailbox
- -p Print all mail and then exit
- -q Quit program if SIGINT received
- -r Reverse print order, i.e., print oldest first
- -v Verbose mode
- EXAMPLES
- mail ast # Send a message to ast
- mail # Read your mail
- DESCRIPTION
- Mail is an extremely simple electronic mail program. It can be used to
- send or receive email on a single MINIX system, in which case it
- functions as user agent and local delivery agent. If the flag MAILER is
- defined in mail.c, it can also call a transport agent to handle remote
- mail as well. No such agent is supplied with MINIX.
- When called by user with no arguments, it examines the mailbox
- /usr/spool/mail/user, prints one message (depending on the -r flag), and
- waits for one of the following commands:
- <newline> Go to the next message
- - Print the previous message
- !command Fork off a shell and execute command
- CTRL-D Update the mailbox and quit (same as q)
- d Delete the current message and go to the next one
- q Update the mailbox and quit (same as CTRL-D)
- p Print the current message again
- s [file] Save message in the named file
- x Exit without updating the mailbox
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- MAIL(1) Minix Programmer's Manual MAIL(1)
- To send mail, the program is called with the name of the recipient as an
- argument. The mail is sent, along with a postmark line containing the
- date. For local delivery, a file named after the recipient in the
- directory /usr/spool/mail must be writable.
- If the directory /usr/spool/mail does not exist then the mail is dumped
- on the console, so that system programs have a way to notify a user on a
- system that does not have a mail spool.
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