11. Sending and Reading Email

In This Chapter

Choosing an Email Program and Getting Started

Reading Email with alpine

Sending Email with alpine

Customizing alpine

Reading Email with mutt

Sending Email with mutt

Reading Email with mail

Sending Email with mail

Creating a Signature File

Automatically Forwarding Incoming Messages

Announcing an Absence with vacation

Configuring procmail

Managing Email with procmail

If you’re anything like us, your whole day revolves around getting goodies in your email inbox and sending “highly important” messages (of course they’re important, right?). In any case, sending and receiving email will probably be rather common tasks in your Unix or Linux experience.

In this chapter, we’ll introduce you to a few Unix ...

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