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Note: This file contains information on the mail client 'mail'. For
general mail information, see 'help mail-clients'.
Mail is a basic mail client. It supports the functions listed below. To
use the client, simply type 'mail <command>' or 'mail <name>'.
mail: List the messages in your inbox.
mail <player | alias>:
Mail a new message to <player> or <alias>. Multiples addresses can
be given here, and the aliases are the ones created in mailx.
While you cannot modify them from this client, they will be
expanded by it.
mail <num>:
mail read <num>:
Displays message number <num>
mail delete <num>:
mail d <num>:
Deletes message number <num>
mail reply <num>:
mail r <num>:
Starts a reply message to message number <num>. This client does
not quote the original message.
mail group <num>:
mail g <num>:
Mail a reply to all the recipients of message <num>.
mail forward <num>:
mail f <num>:
Forwards message number <num>. The forwarded message cannot be
edited, it is simply forwarded in its entirety.
mail edit:
mail e:
If for some reason you should get disconnected or
some other disaster short of quitting or a game crash, this
command may be able to recover your editing session.
mail save <num>:
mail s <num>:
Saves that message to a filename. You will be prompted for the
path/filename. (wizards only)
Note: While you can't change your settings from this client, it does honor
the copy-to-self and ask-for-cc options from the mailx client.
Examples:
> mail
0. N Shamgar (31) Test message
This lists the message number, the status, the lines in the message, and
the subject line of each message in your mailbox respectively.
> mail 0
or
> mail read 0
would read message 0 listed above.
> mail delete 0
or
> mail d 0
would delete the above message
> mail reply 0
or
> mail r 0
would reply to it, etc.
> mail shamgar emrys unk
mail Shamgar, Emrys, and Unk.
This command is only available from a post office.
See also: from, mail-clients, mailx.
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