improving UNIX mail fluency:
command | example | description
--------------------------|--------------|------------------------------------
s - save message to a file| &s1-5 myfile |save messages 1-5 to the file myfile
d - delete messages | &d1-5 |delete messages 1-5
q - quit | &q |quit saving read but undeleted
| |messages in mbox, saving unread
| |messages in the system spool area.
| |
x - exit | &x |ignore any readings and deletions
| |sending all mail back to the
| |system spool area.
h - show headers | &h |after reading and deleting, see
| |what messages are left.
z - show next header page | &z |when you have more than 25 messages
| |display the next 25 from lines.
R - reply to sender only | &R |
r - reply to everyone | &r |Usually a command for idiots of
| |large mailing lists.
! - shell escape | &!date |see what time it is.
pre - send mail back | &pre |send current message back to system
| |spool area as if you had not read it
| |yet.
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