1 Both the send_mail and read_mail "commands" enable you to file mail away
2 for future reference. The send_mail command enables you to save mail you are
3 sending to others, and read_mail enables you to save mail you've received.
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5 You save mail by using "requests" once you've started interacting with
6 the command, and both commands use the same requests for saving mail. For
7 instance, whether you're dealing with mail you've written or received, the
8 copy request puts a copy of it in another mailbox, as in the following
9 example:
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11 read_mail: copy 2 high_priority
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13 The 2 refers to the number assigned to the piece of mail.
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15 The read_mail command automatically reads from your regular mailbox
16 unless you specify another mailbox by way of an "argument" to the command. For
17 example:
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19 read_mail high_priority
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21 This, of course, is what you must do to read from one of the mailboxes you are
22 using to save mail. You can also go to another mailbox from within read_mail
23 by using the execute request. This request, whose short name is the letter e,
24 treats the rest of the line like a command. So, if in response to a "prompt"
25 you type:
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27 read_mail: e read_mail high_priority
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29 you will go into the mailbox named high_priority.
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31 Below are listed some of the requests with their short names that
32 enable you to save mail:
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34 copy cp copies mail into another mailbox.
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36 save sv copies mail into a save mailbox one with .sv.mbx suffixes.
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38 forward fwd sends mail to another user's mailbox available only in
39 read_mail.
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41 write w creates a segment and copies mail into it.
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43 append copies mail to the end of an existing segment.