mail is a command-line email client for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. "Electronic mail was there from the start", Douglas McIlroy writes in his...
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Windows and Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD, and Solaris. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format. Plugins allow to read HTML mail, but there is...
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Daemon (computing) (redirect from Unix daemon)
computing systems, the term daemon is used almost exclusively in the context of Unix-based systems. In other contexts, different terms are used for the same concept...
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of mail servers covers mail transfer agents (MTAs), mail delivery agents, and other computer software that provide e-mail services. Unix-based mail servers...
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newspaper The Mail (Madras), formerly The Madras Mail The Mail (Cumbria), a British local newspaper The Mail (Zimbabwe), a newspaper mail (Unix), a command...
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UUCP (redirect from Unix to Unix Copy Protocol)
UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy) is a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between...
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interactive command interpreter and command programming language developed for UNIX-like operating systems. Created in 1989 by Brian Fox for the GNU Project...
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When a text file with a shebang is used as if it were an executable in a Unix-like operating system, the program loader mechanism parses the rest of the...
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The UNIX-HATERS Handbook is a semi-humorous edited compilation of messages to the UNIX-HATERS mailing list. The book was edited by Simson Garfinkel, Daniel...
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1970, the Unix epoch. For example, at midnight on 1 January 2010, Unix time was 1262304000. Unix time originated as the system time of Unix operating...
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Man page (redirect from Man (Unix))
(short for manual page) is a form of software documentation found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Topics covered include programs, system libraries...
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biff is a mail notification system for Unix. When a new mail message is delivered, the program biff alerts the recipient so they can read it immediately...
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Unix (/ˈjuːnɪks/ , YOO-niks; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T...
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Sendmail (redirect from Sendmail (Unix))
runs as the Unix user smmsp — the sendmail message submission program. List of mail servers Comparison of mail servers Mail delivery agent Mail user agent...
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Mailx (category Unix SUS2008 utilities)
mailx is a Unix utility program for sending and receiving mail, also known as a Mail User Agent program. Being a console application with a command syntax...
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Single UNIX Specification (SUS) is a standard for computer operating systems, compliance with which is required to qualify for using the "UNIX" trademark...
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executing in the same Unix or Unix-like operating system. The name, Unix domain socket, refers to the domain argument value AF_UNIX that is passed to the...
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In computing, time is a command in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is used to determine the duration of execution of a particular command. time(1)...
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Elm (email client) (redirect from Elm (Unix))
Elm is a text-based email client commonly found on Unix systems. First released in 1986, it became popular as one of the first email clients to use a text...
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In Unix and operating systems inspired by it, the file system is considered a central component of the operating system. It was also one of the first parts...
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with 4.1cBSD in 1983, was one of the first mail transfer agents (MTA) to implement SMTP. Over time, as BSD Unix became the most popular operating system...
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Fdm (software) (redirect from Fdm (mail filtering software))
fdm (fetch/filter and deliver mail) is a mail delivery agent and email filtering software for Unix-like operating systems, similar to fetchmail and procmail...
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Outlook.com (redirect from Hot mail)
Solaris for mail services and Apache on FreeBSD for web services, before being partly converted to Microsoft products, using Windows Services for UNIX in the...
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Pine (email client) (redirect from Pine (mail reader))
announced to the public in March 1992. Source code was available for only the Unix version under a license written by the University of Washington. Pine is...
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Research Unix refers to the early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in...
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History of email (section Host-based mail systems)
3 Unix mail(1) manual page from 10/25/1972". Minnie.tuhs.org. Archived from the original on 2018-03-17. Retrieved 2014-01-09. "Version 6 Unix mail(1)...
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Environment variable (redirect from Unix environment variable)
is displayed in the Bourne shell and variants. MAIL (Unix-like): used to indicate where a user's mail is to be found. TEMP: location where processes can...
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Microsoft Mail Gateway to SMTP client combined with a Unix system, typically running sendmail as a smarthost. SCO Unix and Interactive Unix were both...
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Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems. Exim is a free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public...
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Mutt (email client) (redirect from Mutt mail)
Mutt is a text-based email client for Unix-like systems. It was originally written by Michael Elkins in 1995 and released under the GNU General Public...
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