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1. What's a general reference about mail on Athena, including advanced features?
2. How do I forward my Athena mail elsewhere?
3. How do I stop forwarding Athena mail?
4. How do I read MIME messages?
5. Anybody know how I can download my e-mail from my AOL account?
6. How do I attach files to an outgoing email?
7. How can i forward an emacs document as an e-mail to someone?
8. How do I Bcc an email?
9. How do I bring up an e-mail again if there was a mistake and I am at the What now? prompt?
10. How do I save e-mail that I have sent?
11. How do I print an email?
12. How do I renumber my emails so there are no gaps in the sequence?
1. What's a general reference about mail on Athena, including advanced features?
athena% olc stock (Choose option 12.) You can also get this reference via the web.
2. How do I forward my Athena mail elsewhere?
athena% chpobox -s "address".
(eg. athena% chpobox -s metoo@aol.com)
3. How do I stop forwarding Athena mail?
athena% chpobox -p
4. How do I read MIME messages?
athena% add mime
athena% show ### | metamail -w
5. Anybody know how I can download my e-mail from my AOL account?
You can check your AOL e-mail on the web at http://www.aol.com.
6. How do I attach files to an outgoing email?
The easiest way to do this is to send it from exmh athena% exmh &.
7. How can i forward an emacs document as an e-mail to someone?
type comp, then use C-x i to insert the file you want to mail into
the e-mail.
Type "Bcc: somebody@nowhere.edu" just after the To: line
9. How do I bring up an e-mail again if there was a mistake and I am at
the What now? prompt?
Type edit
10. How do I save e-mail that I have sent?
You can do this multiple ways:
- Send a copy to yourself by typing "Cc:
" just below the To: line - Fcc some mail folder by typing "Fcc:
" just below the To: line. For more on folders, athena% olc stock(Option 12). - Fcc some mail folder by typing "Fcc:
athena% show ### | lpr (where ### is the number of the email)
12. How do I renumber my emails so there are no gaps in the sequence?
athena% folder -pack +inbox