mail (Unix)
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History
"Electronic mail was there from the start", Douglas McIlroy writes in his article "A Research UNIX Reader: Annotated Excerpts from the Programmer’s Manual, 1971-1986",[1] and so a <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />mail command was included in the first released version of research Unix, First Edition Unix.[2] This version of mail was capable to send (append) messages to the mailboxes of other users on the Unix system, and it helped managing (reading) the mailbox of the current user.
In 1978 Kurt Shoens wrote a completely new version of mail for BSD2, referred to as Berkeley Mail. Although initially installed at <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />/usr/ucb/Mail, (with the earlier Unix mail still available at <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />/bin/mail), on most modern Unix and Linux systems the commands <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />Mail, <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />mail and/or <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />mailx all invoke a descendant of this Berkeley Mail, which much later was the base for the standardization of a mail program by the OpenGroup, the POSIX standardized variant mailx.[3][4]
See also
References
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- ↑ POSIX standard entry
- ↑ "mail, Mail, mailx, nail—history notes", Heirloom Project
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External links
- <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />mail at GNU Mailutils manual
- S-nail <templatestyles src="Mono/styles.css" />mailx(1)manual
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