Unix Third Edition: Visual Quickstart Guide

Chapter 11. Sending and Reading Email

Chapter Contents

Choosing an email program and getting started Reading email with pine Sending email with pine Customizing pine Reading email with mutt Sending email with mutt Reading email with mail Sending email with mail Creating a signature file Automatically forwarding incoming messages Announcing an absence Configuring procmail Responding to email with procmail

If you’re anything like us, your whole day revolves around getting goodies in your email in-box and sending “highly important” messages (of course, they’re important, right?). In any case, sending and receiving email will probably be rather common tasks in your Unix experience.

In this chapter, we’ll introduce you to a few Unix email programs and show ...