bakkac@econ.vu.nl (Dick G. / Anton B.) (09/08/87)
Who can tell me how to send personal mail to one specific user on another (remote) system ? Which commands do you have to use ??? It must be simple , but we have no manual so ....... Who helps us out ??? Dick Groenhof & Rene Baart
gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (09/11/87)
In article <108@vuecon.econ.vu.nl> bakkac@econ.vu.nl (Dick G. / Anton B.) writes: >Who can tell me how to send personal mail to one >specific user on another (remote) system ? >Which commands do you have to use ??? >It must be simple , but we have no manual so ....... >Who helps us out ??? The commands vary from system to system. Usually there is a "mail" command, sometimes a "mailx" or "Mail" or "send" command, occasionally some other message-handling interface. The simplest use is usually "mail destination" where you have to replace "destination" by the correct address of the intended recipient. Unfortunately, there is no universally-agreed upon form for such an address. The most common forms are "site!person" or "site1!site2!...!site!person" for UUCP mail and "person@domain" for Internet mail. Unfortunately there are other variations, and if the destination is not on the same network, you may have to resort to strangely constructed destination names to satisfy the requirements of the systems that act as "gateways" between networks. As to not having a manual: Usually, there is an on-line manual available under the name "man", e.g. "man mail" to read documentation for the "mail" command. Otherwise, you should contact whoever supplied your system (or whoever gave you an account on the system) and obtain documentation from them. It is hard to believe that documentation is completely unavailable. (If so, let us know what brand of system you bought so we can all avoid making the same mistake.)