Email

evolution

GUI email client

mutt

Text-based mail client

mail

Minimal text-based mail client

Fedora includes a number of mail readers. We’ll look at three with different purposes and strengths. Other Linux mailers include pine, the RMAIL and vm applications built into emacs, and mozilla’s Mail & News.

To see the progress of email messages you send and receive, view the logfile /var/log/maillog. As root, you can use the mailq command to view any outgoing mail messages still queued on your machine, waiting to be sent.

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