Choosing an Email Program and Getting Started
In general, you’ll have a choice of two kinds of programs for sending and receiving email on a Unix system:
An email program installed on your local computer or network that interacts with the Unix system for you. You might know these programs as mail clients and might have used ones like Thunderbird, Eudora, Outlook Express, or Mozilla’s mail program, Messenger. These are handy because they usually have a spiffy interface and can handle attachments without a lot of hassle on your part, but they’re not really Unix email programs. These programs also let you store your mail on your desktop system (Windows or Macintosh or even Unix desktops, but those are beyond the scope of this book).
An email program ...
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