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Unix: Visual QuickStart Guide
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Unix: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Deborah S. Ray, Eric J. Ray
November 1998
Beginner
368 pages
7h 58m
English
Peachpit Press
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Chapter 11. Sending and Reading E-mail

Chapter contents

  • Choosing an e-mail program and getting started

  • Reading e-mail with pine

  • Sending e-mail with pine

  • Customizing pine

  • Reading e-mail with elm

  • Sending e-mail with elm

  • Reading e-mail with mail

  • Sending e-mail with mail

  • Creating a signature file

  • Forwarding incoming messages

  • Announcing an absence

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 pretty common tasks in your UNIX experience.

In this chapter, we'll introduce you to a few UNIX e-mail programs and show you how to get started with them. (Of course, just use the instructions ...

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