Configuring and Managing MPE/iX Internet Services (August 2002)

Chapter 10
Sendmail for MPE/iX
Receiving E-mail
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Receiving E-mail
By default, Sendmail delivers to local mailboxes by appending new messages to the file
/usr/mail/USER.ACCOUNT. Mailbox files will automatically be created if they do not already exist. Each user
has direct filesystem read/write access to their own mailbox file. MPE usernames *must* be specified in
uppercase when addressing e-mail.
When the mailx program is run without any parameters, it checks to see if there is any new mail in your local
mailbox file. A summary of the mailbox contents will be presented, and then you can interact with your
messages using a simplistic user interface:
1. :HELLO USER.ACCOUNT
2. :XEQ SH.HPBIN.SYS -L
3. shell/iX> mailx
mailx version MPE/iX Shell and Utilities (A.01.01) May 9 1997 05:04:05 Type ? for
help.
"/usr/mail/USER.ACCOUNT": 1 message 1 new
>N 1 [e-mail] Mon Oct 29 16:48 22/908 test message
4. ? help
mailx commands
type [msglist] print messages
next goto and type next message
edit [message] edit message
from [msglist] print header summary of messages
delete [msglist] delete messages
save [msglist] file save messages by appending to "file"
undelete [msglist] remove deletion mark from messages
reply [msglist] reply to messages
preserve [msglist] prevent messages from going into MBOX
unread [msglist] mark messages as unread
mail [user ...] mail to specified users
quit quit, updating MAILBOX and MBOX
xit quit, no updates
headers print page of headers summary
!command escape to shell with "command"
cd [directory] change current directory
list complete set of command names
The shortest non-ambiguous abbreviation is allowed for commands [msglist] or [message]
are optional specifiers for message by subject, author, number, or type. When
unspecified, the current message is assumed.
5. ? type 1
Message 1:
From [e-mail] Mon Oct 29 16:48:18 2001
Received: from some.host (IDENT:[e-mail] [12.34.56.78])
by my.host (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id f9U0mGPr46792874
for <[e-mail]>; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:48:17 -0800
Received: from some.host (some.host [12.34.56.78])
by some.host (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9U0m8O06413
for <[e-mail]>; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:48:08 -0800