| Once
you have started exchanging messages with other users you need to
be able to read what they have sent. To do that you will once again
use the mail command.
To read your mail you
need to use interactive mode. This special mode runs mail
as a program and changes your prompt to an ampersand (&). From
the & prompt you can execute all mail commands including read
commands
Example:
When you first enter
the mail interactive mode it informs you of how many messages you
have waiting:
mail
Mail version 8.1 6/6/93
Type ? for help.
"var/spool/mail/root":
1 message 1 unread
>U 1 BobJ@localhost.local
Wed Apr 26 15:23 14/402 "Month End"
&
This
line tells us that there is a message from BobJ with a subject of
Month End. Since the mail is listed as number 1 (just after the
U in the header) then all we need to do to read it is enter 1:
&1
Message 1:
From BobJ Wed Apr 26 15:23:02
2000
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 15:23:02
-0700
From: BobJ <BobJ@localhost.local>
To: root@localhost.local
Subject: Month End
The month end reports are
done.
&
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