Unix and Linux: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fourth Edition

Chapter 11. Sending and Reading E-mail

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• Choosing an e-mail program and getting started

• Reading e-mail with pine (or alpine)

• Sending e-mail with pine (or alpine)

• Customizing pine (or alpine)

• Reading e-mail with mutt

• Sending e-mail with mutt

• Reading e-mail with mail

• Sending e-mail with mail

• Creating a signature file

• Automatically forwarding incoming messages

• Announcing an absence

• Configuring procmail

• Managing e-mail with procmail

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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 rather common tasks in your Unix experience.

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