On Aug 22, 2005, at 7:59 PM, Richard Nagle wrote: > I was remember the other day, there use to be a unix mail app, that > one, > could access, via the terminal, just by typing :mail You're after /usr/bin/mail or just "mail" as /usr/bin should be in your path. I don't know where you got idea that a colon is part of the program's name, but it isn't. > man mail NAME mail, mailx -- send and receive mail SYNOPSIS mail [-EiInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] [-F] to- addr ... [-sendmail-option ...] mail [-EHiInNv] [-F] -f [name] mail [-EHiInNv] [-F] [-u user] mail -e [-f name] mail [-H] INTRODUCTION The mail utility is an intelligent mail processing system, which has a command syntax reminiscent of ed(1) with lines replaced by messages. ... Phil -- "I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'" --Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation