Unix Third Edition: Visual Quickstart Guide

Reading Email with mail

In general, using mail is a bit less intuitive than using either pine or mutt; however, reading email with mail is particularly—um—challenging. Although we’d recommend using another program to read email if at all possible, here are the steps for reading email with mail if you’re daring enough or if you have no other options. Figure 11.12 illustrates this fairly quick task.

Figure 11.12. The mail screen is anything but intuitive, but you can see the messages you have.

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To read email with mail:

1.	mail Type mail at the shell prompt. You’ll get a list of messages and a prompt (Figure 11.12).
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