Mail commands

These are the commands you can enter at the mail prompt to read and manage your mail.

Type a ? at the command prompt whenever you want to dispay a list of them.

To ...                                      Do this

use a UNIX shell command                    ! command
	
delete the current message                  d 
	
delete a specific message                   d message list
	
undelete a specific message                 u message list
	
save the current message                    s
	
save a specific message	                    s message list
	
reply to sender of a message                r message list
	
reply to sender and all recipients          R message list
of a message
	
read the current message                    <Return>
	
read a specific message                     p message list
	
show the top of a message                   top message list
(default 5 lines)
	
display next [previous] page of headers     z [-]
	
edit message with the visual editor         v message list

go to the next message and display it       n

save the current message                    s filename

save a specific message                     s message list filename

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