Chapter contents
Choosing an e-mail program and getting started
Reading e-mail with pine
Sending e-mail with pine
Customizing pine
Reading e-mail with elm
Sending e-mail with elm
Reading e-mail with mail
Sending e-mail with mail
Creating a signature file
Forwarding incoming messages
Announcing an absence
If you're anything like us, your whole day revolves around getting goodies in your e-mail inbox and sending "highly important" messages (of course, they're important, right?). In any case, sending and receiving e-mail will probably be pretty common tasks in your UNIX experience.
In this chapter, we'll introduce you to a few UNIX e-mail programs and show you how to get started with them. (Of course, just use the instructions that apply to the program you're using!) Then, we'll show you some clever things you can do with e-mail in UNIX, such as creating signature files and sending automatic vacation e-mail replies.
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