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BINMAIL(1)						      General Commands Manual							BINMAIL(1)

NAME

       binmail - send or receive mail among users

SYNOPSIS

       /bin/mail [ + ] [ -i ] [ person ] ...
       /bin/mail [ + ] [ -i ] -f file

DESCRIPTION

       Note:  This  is	the  old  version  7 UNIX system mail program.	The default mail command is described in Mail(1), and its binary is in the
       directory /usr/ucb.

       mail with no argument prints a user's mail, message-by-message, in last-in, first-out order; the optional argument + displays the mail mes-
       sages in first-in, first-out order.  For each message, it reads a line from the standard input to direct disposition of the message.

       newline
	      Go on to next message.

       d      Delete message and go on to the next.

       p      Print message again.

       -      Go back to previous message.

       s [ file ] ...
	      Save the message in the named files (`mbox' default).

       w [ file ] ...
	      Save the message, without a header, in the named files (`mbox' default).

       m [ person ] ...
	      Mail the message to the named persons (yourself is default).

       EOT (control-D)
	      Put unexamined mail back in the mailbox and stop.

       q      Same as EOT.

       !command
	      Escape to the Shell to do command.

       *      Print a command summary.

       An  interrupt  normally	terminates  the  mail  command; the mail file is unchanged.  The optional argument -i tells mail to continue after
       interrupts.

       When persons are named, mail takes the standard input up to an end-of-file (or a line with just `.')  and adds it to each  person's  `mail'
       file.   The  message  is preceded by the sender's name and a postmark.  Lines that look like postmarks are prepended with `>'.  A person is
       usually a user name recognized by login(1).  To denote a recipient on a remote system, prefix person by the  system  name  and  exclamation
       mark (see uucp(1C)).

       The -f option causes the named file, for example, `mbox', to be printed as if it were the mail file.

       When a user logs in he is informed of the presence of mail.

FILES

       /etc/passwd	      to identify sender and locate persons
       /usr/spool/mail/*      incoming mail for user *
       mbox		      saved mail
       /tmp/ma* 	      temp file
       /usr/spool/mail/*.lock lock for mail directory
       dead.letter	      unmailable text

SEE ALSO

       Mail(1), write(1), uucp(1C), uux(1C), xsend(1), sendmail(8)

BUGS

       Race conditions sometimes result in a failure to remove a lock file.

       Normally anybody can read your mail, unless it is sent by xsend(1).  An installation can overcome this by making mail a set-user-id command
       that owns the mail directory.

7th Edition							  April 29, 1985							BINMAIL(1)

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MAIL(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   MAIL(1)

NAME

       mail - send and receive electronic mail

SYNOPSIS

       mail [-dpqrv] [-f file] [user]

OPTIONS

       -d     Force use of the shell variable MAILER

       -f     Use file instead of /usr/spool/mail/user as mailbox

       -p     Print all mail and then exit

       -q     Quit program if SIGINT received

       -r     Reverse print order, i.e., print oldest first

       -v     Verbose mode

EXAMPLES

       mail ast 	   # Send a message to ast

       mail		   # Read your mail

DESCRIPTION

       Mail  is  an  extremely simple electronic mail program.	It can be used to send or receive email on a single MINIX system, in which case it
       functions as user agent and local delivery agent.  If the flag MAILER is defined in mail.c, it can also call a transport  agent	to  handle
       remote mail as well.  No such agent is supplied with MINIX.

       When  called  by  user  with no arguments, it examines the mailbox /usr/spool/mail/user, prints one message (depending on the -r flag), and
       waits for one of the following commands:

	 <newline> Go to the next message
	 -	   Print the previous message
	 !command  Fork off a shell and execute command
	 CTRL-D    Update the mailbox and quit (same as q)
	 d	   Delete the current message and go to the next one
	 q	   Update the mailbox and quit (same as CTRL-D)
	 p	   Print the current message again
	 s [file]  Save message in the named file
	 x	   Exit without updating the mailbox

       To send mail, the program is called with the name of the recipient as an
       argument.  The mail is sent, along with a postmark line containing the date.
       For local delivery, a file named after the recipient in the directory
       /usr/spool/mail must be writable.

       If the directory /usr/spool/mail does not exist then the mail is
       dumped on the console, so that system programs have a way to notify
       a user on a system that does not have a mail spool.

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