Chapter 2: Using e-mail

Table of contents

• Chapter 2: Using e-mail
  • Starting and quitting mail
  • Reading mail
  • Replying to a message
  • Forwarding a message to another user
  • Creating and sending a message
  • Sending mail from the command line
  • Editing a message's header
  • Editing a message
  • Including a file or a message in mail
  • Canceling a message
  • Addressing mail to users on other systems
  • Saving a message
  • Printing a message
  • Deleting a message
  • Restoring a message
  • Sending a message to a list of people using an alias
  • Attaching a signature to your messages
  • Adding your real name to the message header
  • Organizing your mail into folders
  • Working with attachments and large files
    • Reading an attachment
    • Sending large files via mail
    • Running UNIX commands from within mail
  • Customizing mail
    • Making mail execute commands at startup
    • Automatic notification of new mail
    • Redirecting incoming messages to other folders
    • Sending automatic responses when on vacation
    • Forwarding your messages automatically
  • More about mail
  • Other ways of contacting users
    • Holding conversations using talk
    • Preventing someone from writing a message to you