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