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

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