How to use mail facility in unix??


 
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Old 06-28-2005
How to use mail facility in unix??

I'm a beginner in Unix. Please explain in short, how to send and receive mail in unix. The mail is already configured in the OS.
Tell me the steps to send/receive mail in the command prompt.

The platform is AIX 5.1.


Thanks
Karthik
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Old 06-29-2005
To send mail use:
$ mail user@mail.com

To read mail use:
$ pine
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