mh-e. Node: Reading Mail Tour

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1.4: Receiving Mail

To read the mail you've just sent yourself, enter M-x mh-rmail. This incorporates the new mail and put the output from inc (called scan lines after the MH program scan which prints a one-line summary of each message) into a buffer called `+inbox' whose major mode is MH-Folder.

NOTE

The M-x mh-rmail command will show you only new mail, not old mail. If you were to run this tour again, you would use M-r to pull all your messages into mh-e.

You should see the scan line for your message, and perhaps others. Use n or p to move the cursor to your test message and type RET to read your message. You should see something like:

3 24Aug root received fax files on Wed Aug 24 11:00:13 PDT 1994 # 4+ 24Aug To:wohler Test<<This is a test message to get the wheels chu --%%-{+inbox} 4 msgs (1-4) (MH-Folder Show)--Bot--------------------- To: wohler Subject: Test Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 13:01:13 -0700 From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> This is a test message to get the wheels churning... -----{show-+inbox} 4 (MH-Show)--Bot----------------------------------

After incorporating new messages

If you typed a long message, you can view subsequent pages with SPC and previous pages with DEL.

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