MAIL (I) 10/25/72 MAIL (I)
NAME mail -- send mail to another user
SYNOPSIS mail [ -yn ]
mail letter person ...
mail person
DESCRIPTION mail without an argument searches for a file
called mailbox, prints it if present, and asks if
it should be saved. If the answer is "y", the
mail is renamed mbox, otherwise it is deleted.
Mail with a -yn argument works the same way, ex-
cept that the answer to the question is supplied
by the argument.
When followed by the names of a letter and one or
more people, the letter is appended to each
person's mailbox. When a person is specified
without a letter, the letter is taken from the
sender's standard input up to an EOT. Each let-
ter is preceded by the sender's name and a post-
mark.
A person is either a user name recognized by lo-
gin, in which case the mail is sent to the de-
fault working directory of that user, or the path
name of a directory, in which case mailbox in
that directory is used.
When a user logs in he is informed of the pres-
ence of mail.
FILES /etc/passwd to identify sender
to locate persons
mailbox input mail
mbox saved mail
SEE ALSO login(I)
DIAGNOSTICS "Who are you?" if the user cannot be identified
for some reason (a bug). "Cannot send to user"
if mailbox cannot be opened.
BUGS --