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Using e-mail

Using e-mail

You can exchange mail with any of the users on your computer. If your computer is linked to others via a network, you can also exchange mail with users on the other machines.

This chapter describes the command-line version of the mail(C) program provided with SCO OpenServer systems. For information on the menu-driven SCO Shell Mail program, see ``Using SCO Shell Mail''. The graphical Desktop Mail program is described online in Using Mail.

E-mail is like a postal system, and the system mailbox is like the post office. The system mailbox is located in the usr/spool/mail directory, and contains a file for each user on your system. Your own personal or user mailbox is the file named mbox in your home directory. Mail sent to you is put in your system mailbox and is automatically saved in your user mailbox after you have read it. For further information on default mail filenames and locations, see the mail(C) manual page. For details on controlling certain aspects of mail using environment variables, see ``Setting environment variables''.


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SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 -- 11 February 2003