[PLUG] Re: about sending mail.......

[Sandy Herring]

Billy,

Let's keep this on the PLUG list so that others (more knowledgeable than I)
can add their two cents. I've set the Reply-To: header on this email to the
list (plug at lists.pdxlinux.org).

Sending and receiving mail is generally done by using a program designed for
that purpose rather than directly invoking the system utilities (like
sendmail) used as a foundation for a friendly user interface.

Your choices of MUAs (mail user agents) is going to be a function of who
administers the server. If it's you, then you can install whichever program
you like. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of the sysadmin. It's probable that
you have pine and elm. Good resources for learning about their use (a topic
far too extensive to tackle in this email) can be found at these web sites:

   Linkname: Pine Information Center
        URL: http://www.washington.edu/pine/ 

   Linkname: ii.com: All About PINE: IMAP, NNTP, & ESMPT for Unix, MS Windows,
             and Mac OS X by Nancy McGough
        URL: http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/

   Linkname: ELM - Electronic Mail for UNIX                               
        URL: http://www.instinct.org/elm/

You can also type in `man pine' and `man elm' at the UNIX shell prompt to
read the online manual pages.

You'll need to learn to use a UNIX editor in order to compose mail. Most
beginners start with pico, joe or vi. You can find information on these by
using the `man' command (e.g., `man pico', etc.), and also at the following
web sites:

   Linkname: Pico Tutorial                                                
        URL: http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/pico/index.html

   Linkname: Using the Unix Text Editor Pico                              
        URL: http://www.itd.umich.edu/itdoc/r/r1168/

   Linkname: The Joe Editor
        URL: http://www.rochester.edu/ats/Documentation/joeeditor.html

   Linkname: Introduction to the Joe Text Editor 
        URL: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Joe/NotesJoe.NM.html

   Linkname: An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi
        URL: http://docs.FreeBSD.org/44doc/usd/12.vi/paper.html

   Linkname: VI LOVERS HOME PAGE                                          
        URL: http://www.thomer.com/vi/vi.html

   Linkname: Vim FAQ#1                                                    
        URL: http://www.geocities.com/yegappan/vim_faq.txt

   Linkname: Vim FAQ#2                                                    
        URL: http://www.soyabean.com.au/gavin/vim/vim-FAQ-0.2.txt

Try them out and pick the one(s) you like. As you explore them, feel free to
post more questions to the list.

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Billy M Dimaculangan wrote: 
> I think you got. Upon logging in as a regular user in the Linux server, I
> want to know how to send mail using that text-based interface.  Could you
> help how or tell me what would I press in my keyboard in order to write the
> subject, body and to whom it will be sent (to|cc|bcc).
> 
> Hope you can enlighten me
> 
> Thank you  and Good Day!
> 
> --
> billy

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