The first thing you need to know is how to send a message to another user. The command to do that (and all other e-mail tasks) is mail.

Command Format:

mail user@hostname

Example:

In this example we will send mail to a user named joe on srv2:

mail joe@srv2

After entering this command you will be asked for a subject. This is a brief description of what the message is about:

subject: Testing

After entering a subject you are presented with a blank line. This is where you start typing the body of the message. When you are done, enter a period on a line by itself:

subject: Testing

This is a test message.

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Finally you are asked for a CC:, which is short for Carbon Copy. Entering a user here will send them a copy of the message. Here we will copy bob@srv3:

CC: bob@srv3