[X-Unix] Unix Mail ?

[Philip J Robar]

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
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