How to read & send mail

We suggest that you use either the Mail program if you are not in a windowing environment (i.e. connecting via a modem) or the pine program. If you a using X Windows then use the dtmail program.

To send mail using the Mail program use the following command:

Mail nobody@nowhere.com
Subject: enter your subject here

Enter your message here. To send the message enter a '.' on a line by itself.
NOTE: To abort/cancel sending the message press CONTROL-C twice.

In order to mail a text file (i.e. not a program, binary, dvi, .o, or PostScript file) to someone use the following command:

Mail -s "your subject here" nobody@nowhere.com < your filename

where nobody@nowhere.com is the email address of the person to whom you are sending the mail. To send a binary (non-text) file you will need to use uuencode. (man uuencode for more information) and send the uuencoded file. You may need to break up the uunecoded file into smaller chunks. Another alternative is to use the ftp program.

Press here to return to the General Unix Software Menu.