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Mail and Messaging overview



Electronic mail
        Sending mail
        Reading mail
        Responding to mail
        More mail features
                Getting help
                Saving mail
                Deleting and recovering mail
                Forwarding mail
                Using the vi editor in mail
                Mailing several people at once: aliases
        Summary
        Sending and receiving mail
                Sending e-mail
                Replying to e-mail
                Saving messages
                Deleting and restoring messages
                Getting more information about Mail

Using e-mail
                Starting and quitting mail
                        Getting help
                        Quitting mail
                Reading mail
                        Viewing the header list
                        Selecting particular messages
                        Changing the order of the header list
                Replying to a message
                Forwarding a message to another user
                Creating and sending a message
                Sending mail from the command line
                Editing a message's header
                Editing a message
                Including a file or a message in mail
                Canceling a message
                Addressing mail to users on other systems
                Saving a message
                Printing a message
                Deleting a message
                Restoring a message
                Sending a message to a list of people using an alias
                Attaching a signature to your messages
                Adding your real name to the message header
        Organizing your mail into folders
        Working with attachments and large files
                Reading an attachment
                Sending large files via mail
                        Compressing and encoding a file
                        Decoding and uncompressing a file
                Running UNIX commands from within mail
        Customizing mail
                Making mail execute commands at startup
                Automatic notification of new mail
                Redirecting incoming messages to other folders
                Sending automatic responses when on vacation
                Forwarding your messages automatically
        More about mail
        Other ways of contacting users
                Holding conversations using talk
                Preventing someone from writing a message to you

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