Subsections

• Reading a Message
• Deleting a Message
• Quitting

       
Receiving and Reading Mail

To read your mail, enter

mail

Mail will then display a listing of all the messages you have waiting. At the bottom of the list will appear an ampersand (&) which is the mail prompt. For example:

When mail lists the messages you have, each line in the listing shows you

• whether you have read the message (An N means New; U means old but Unread; if there is no letter here, it means that you have read the message.)
• the message number
• who sent the message
• when the message was sent
• how many lines are in the message (the first number of the two separated by a /)
• how many characters are in the message (the second number of the two separated by a /)
• the subject of the message

HINT: You can get a list of commands by entering a question mark (?) at the & prompt.

Reading a Message

To read a message, enter its number after the & prompt, like this:

& 1

If the message contains more than 22 lines, the Mail system will display the first screenful of text and print this message at the bottom of the screen:

Press the SPACE BAR to see the next screen of the message; press Return to see the next line. If you are in the middle of a long message and you want to stop looking at it and return to the mail system, type

q

at the ``More'' prompt.

To read your next mail message, press Return at the & prompt.

Deleting a Message

To delete a message you just read, type

d

at the & prompt. If you wish to delete a particular message, enter a d and the message number. If you want to delete a range of messages, or several messages, enter a d and the range. For example, to delete messages 2 through 5, you can type:

d 2-5

while if you wish to delete only messages 2, 3, and 5, you can type:

d 2 3 5

Quitting

When you're done reading your messages, you can enter

q

to leave the Mail system. Read section 7 Leaving the Mail System on page to learn more specifics about the different ways you can store mail and exit the Mail system.