12th January 2021
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More noise than signal
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: USA
Posts: 7,984
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Disclaimer: I don't use mail(1). My preference is for the mutt package.
The mail(1) man page refers to the "Mail Reference Manual". Google searching provided a link to it here: https://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/usd/07.mail/paper.pdf
- Using the link above, I learned that you can use
& f .-$ to list all messages.
- The man page states that you can "delete (d) or reply (r) to it."
- This is well outside the scope of a Mail User Agent (MUA) such as mail(1). It requires provisioning a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), commonly called a "mail server." This requires static IP address(es) on the Internet, purchased domain names, provisioning DNS records, a whole lot of knowledge about the protocols SMTP, ESMTP, SPF, and DMARC, managing the reputation(s) of your IP address(es), and most importantly -- avoiding any provisioning errors that allows your server to be attacked and become a spam pump. There is a built-in mail server, smtpd(8), which in its default configuration doesn't accept incoming mail from the network and is used only to manage local mail.
Last edited by jggimi; 12th January 2021 at 01:39 PM.
Reason: typo
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