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.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
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.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)mail1.nr 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/8/93
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.\"
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.sh 1 Introduction
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.pp
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.i Mail
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provides a simple and friendly environment for sending and receiving mail.
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It divides incoming mail into
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its constituent messages and allows the user to deal with them
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in any order. In addition, it provides a set of
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.i ed -\c
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like commands for manipulating messages and sending mail.
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.i Mail
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offers the user simple editing capabilities to ease the composition
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of outgoing messages, as well as providing the ability to define and send
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to names which address groups of users. Finally,
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.i Mail
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is able to send and receive messages across such networks as the
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ARPANET, UUCP, and Berkeley network.
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.pp
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This document describes how to use the
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.i Mail
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program to send and receive messages. The reader is not assumed to
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be familiar with other message handling systems, but should be
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familiar with the \s-2UNIX\s0\**
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.(f
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\** \s-1UNIX\s0 is a trademark of Bell Laboratories.
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.)f
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shell, the text editor, and some of the common \s-2UNIX\s0 commands.
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.q "The \s-2UNIX\s0 Programmer's Manual,"
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.q "An Introduction to Csh,"
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and
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.q "Text Editing with Ex and Vi"
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can be consulted for more information on these topics.
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.pp
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Here is how messages are handled:
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the mail system accepts incoming
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.i messages
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for you from other people
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and collects them in a file, called your
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.i "system mailbox" .
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When you login, the system notifies you if there are any messages
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waiting in your system mailbox. If you are a
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.i csh
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user, you will be notified when new mail arrives if you inform
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the shell of the location of your mailbox. On version 7 systems,
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your system mailbox is located in the directory /var/mail
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in a file with your login name. If your login name is
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.q sam,
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then you can make
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.i csh
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notify you of new mail by including the following line in your .cshrc
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file:
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.(l
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set mail=/var/mail/sam
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.)l
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When you read your mail using
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.i Mail ,
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it reads your system mailbox and separates that file into the
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individual messages that have been sent to you. You can then
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read, reply to, delete, or save these messages.
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Each message is marked with its author and the date they sent it.
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