Unix: Visual QuickStart Guide

Reading e-mail with mail

In general, using mail is a bit less intuitive than using either pine or elm; however, reading e-mail with mail is particularly—umm—challenging. Although we'd recommend using another program to read e-mail if at all possible, here are the steps for reading e-mail 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.

To read e-mail with mail:

1.	mail Type mail at the shell prompt. You'll get a list of messages and a prompt (Figure 11.12).
2.	3 Type the number ...