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1.1       root        1: .TH IMP 6
                      2: .CT 1 mail
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: imp \- interactive mail program
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B /usr/games/imp
                      7: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      8: .I Imp
                      9: attempts to avoid the complexity of using modern mail programs by 
                     10: asking for control information interactively rather than by
                     11: expecting the user to supply it on the command line or by
                     12: using defaults that are sometimes not exactly what the user has
                     13: in mind.
                     14: Thus, 
                     15: .I imp
                     16: prompts for the userid of the mail target, the target's home
                     17: machine, the userid and home machine of the sender, and the postmark.
                     18: The message can be entered from the standard input as in
                     19: .IR mail (1)
                     20: or taken from a file.
                     21: .PP
                     22: A particularly useful application of
                     23: .I imp
                     24: is to cause mail that you send from some borrowed account
                     25: to appear as if it came from you on your home machine, thereby
                     26: reducing the possibility of confusing the recipient.
                     27: .SH FILES
                     28: .F /dev/tty
                     29: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     30: .IR mail (1),
                     31: .IR upas (8)
                     32: .SH BUGS
                     33: Probably.
                     34: Try sending mail to yourself before using
                     35: .I imp
                     36: to send mail to others.

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