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U-010 Unix Mail Overview

  
      Information Technology and  Communication  (ITC)  supports  several
 Unix  systems (RS/6000, NeXT, Silicon Graphics and Sun) which each offer
 various electronic mail programs. When you invoke the  mail  command  at
 the  Unix  prompt, you will get the default mail program for the machine
 on which your account resides.  If  you  are  using  UVa's  menu  system
 (Umenu)  and  you choose the electronic mail option, you will invoke the
 default mailer for Umenu.  Of course in either case, you can modify your
 editor  environment  variable  or  customize  the  Umenu  system  editor
 variable to the editor of your choice.  The following chart details  the
 mailers  available  on  each of the Unix systems, the default mailer for
 each system and Umenu, any additional documentation, where to find  that
 documentation  and additional mailers supported by ITC. Documents listed
 may be found in the /help/docs directory and can also be accessed  using
 GWIS,  the Grounds-Wide Information System. The command hints is another
 way to find information about various mailers.

System	Mailer	Command	Document
RS/6000	Customized version of Mush [1] Elm Pine	mail or mush elm pine	U-010A Elm Guides Manual Page [2]
Sun	/usr/ucb/mail - UCB mailer Customized version of Mush [1] Elm Pine	mail mush elm pine [3]
SGI	Customized version of Mush [1] Elm	mail or mush elm	U-010A Elm Guides
NeXT	/usr/ucb/mail - UCB mailer Elm NeXTMail	mail elm icons [4]	U-010B Elm Guides On-line Help
Umenu	Pine Upenelm - Umenu version of Elm Customized version of Mush [1] Elm	pine [6] upenelm [5] mush [6] elm [6]	Manual Page [2] U-001A U-010A Elm Guides

Note 1:
     If you prefer to use a version of Mush (Mail user's shell)  similar
     to the UCB (University of California at Berkeley) mailer, issue the
     command:

             ucbmail       (at the mail prompt when reading a message)
     or
             ~:ucbmail     (at the beginning of a line when writing a message)

     These commands cause a file named .ucbmail to  be  placed  in  your
     HOME  directory.   Do  not  delete  this file.  After executing the
     ucbmail command, exit the mail program.  The next  time  you  issue
     the mail command, you will be using the UCB version of Mush.


Note 2:

     The only documentation currently available can be obtained  on-line
     by using the following command at the Unix command prompt:

                     man pine

     or for a formatted version from a PostScript printer:

                     manpage -Pyour_printer_name pine


Note 3:

     Pine is available on the Solaris and Sun 4 platforms
     but not the Sun 3.


Note 4:

     NeXTMail is a mail interface for the NeXT Window environment.   The
     Mail icons can be invoked by choosing menu selection Services, then
     Mail.  To choose an option you must double click on  the  preferred
     icon.


Note 5:

     Select "Electronic Mail" from the main menu.


Note 6:

     Before using the commands to invoke a different mail  program  from
     the  Umenu  default,  you  must  exit to the Unix command prompt by
     selecting "Go To Unix" from the main menu.

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