mail

[Karl Larsen]

  It is true if you want to have a REAL mail client you need mail. It 
does this:

1 Introduction
gnu Mailutils contains a series of useful mail clients, servers, and 
libraries. These are
the primary mail utilities of the GNU system. Specifically, this package 
contains a POP3
server, an IMAP4 server, and a Sieve mail filter. It also provides a 
POSIX ‘mailx’ client,
and a collection of other tools. The central library is capable of 
accessing different mailbox
formats and mailers as well as off of local or remote POP3 and IMAP4 
servers.
This software is part of the GNU Project and belongs to the Free 
Software Foundation.
All libraries are licensed using the GNU LGPL. The documentation is 
licensed under the
GNU FDL, and everything else is licensed using the GNU GPL.
Why use this package?
This package started off to try and handle large mailbox files more 
gracefully then current
POP3 servers did. While it handles this task, it also allows you to 
support a variety of
different mailbox formats without any real effort on your part. Also, if 
a new format is
added at a later date, your program will support that new format 
automatically as soon as
it is compiled against the new library.

If you want to read mail to root, just start mail in a root terminal 
with $sudo mail. If you want mail to karl just type mail. If you want to 
use mail with Internet mail then you need to read the manual.

To get mail just use sudo apt-get install mailx and mailutil

Karl

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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