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Electronic Mail

For electronic mail in a non-windowing session, the command-oriented programm elm is commonly used. Elm is usually configured to automatically activate an editor, which is usually vi or emacs and you can change it in your .login file using the form 'setenv EDITOR <editor name>'. In a windowing environment the MailTool is recommended, but elm and pine are available too. The electronic mail can also be handled using Netscape Mail or IMP.
To read mail in a non-windowing session, type for example 'elm'.

Mailbox is '/var/mail/rein' with 2 messages [ELM 2.5 PL0]
1 Apr 11 Jyri Reitsakas (35) Classic
2 Apr 10 Dr. Lee Sai Peck (28) camera-ready copy
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You can use any of the following commands by pressing the first character;
d)elete or u)ndelete mail, m)ail a message, r)eply or f)orward mail,
q)uit To read a message, press <return>. j = move down, k = move up,
? = help

Command:

Elm is now capable to understand short commands. For example, messages can be read simply by pressing return. All available commands are displayed on the screen.

Messages to local users may be sent by giving just the user name as an address. Otherwise, the full internet address is required.

After writing and editing the message, you can exit vi by pressing the ESC key followed by two Z keys (Esc ZZ).



Rein Lõugas
Thu Dec 14 16:25:44 EET 2000