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                      7: .sh 1 Introduction
                      8: .pp
                      9: .i Mail
                     10: provides a simple and friendly environment for sending and receiving mail.
                     11: It divides incoming mail into
                     12: its constituent messages and allows the user to deal with them
                     13: in any order.  In addition, it provides a set of
                     14: .i ed -\c
                     15: like commands for manipulating messages and sending mail.
                     16: .i Mail
                     17: offers the user simple editing capabilities to ease the composition
                     18: of outgoing messages, as well as providing the ability to define and send
                     19: to names which address groups of users.  Finally,
                     20: .i Mail
                     21: is able to send and receive messages across such networks as the
                     22: ARPANET, UUCP, and Berkeley network.
                     23: .pp
                     24: This document describes how to use the
                     25: .i Mail
                     26: program to send and receive messages.  The reader is not assumed to
                     27: be familiar with other message handling systems, but should be
                     28: familiar with the \s-2UNIX\s0\**
                     29: .(f
                     30: \** \s-1UNIX\s0 is a trademark of Bell Laboratories.
                     31: .)f
                     32: shell, the text editor, and some of the common \s-2UNIX\s0 commands.
                     33: .q "The \s-2UNIX\s0 Programmer's Manual,"
                     34: .q "An Introduction to Csh,"
                     35: and
                     36: .q "Text Editing with Ex and Vi"
                     37: can be consulted for more information on these topics.
                     38: .pp
                     39: Here is how messages are handled:
                     40: the mail system accepts incoming
                     41: .i messages
                     42: for you from other people
                     43: and collects them in a file, called your
                     44: .i "system mailbox" .
                     45: When you login, the system notifies you if there are any messages
                     46: waiting in your system mailbox.  If you are a
                     47: .i csh
                     48: user, you will be notified when new mail arrives if you inform
                     49: the shell of the location of your mailbox.  On version 7 systems,
                     50: your system mailbox is located in the directory /usr/spool/mail
                     51: in a file with your login name.  If your login name is
                     52: .q sam,
                     53: then you can make
                     54: .i csh
                     55: notify you of new mail by including the following line in your .cshrc
                     56: file:
                     57: .(l
                     58: set mail=/usr/spool/mail/sam
                     59: .)l
                     60: When you read your mail using
                     61: .i Mail ,
                     62: it reads your system mailbox and separates that file into the
                     63: individual messages that have been sent to you.  You can then
                     64: read, reply to, delete, or save these messages.
                     65: Each message is marked with its author and the date they sent it.

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