mailx is a
Unix
Unix (; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, an ...
utility program for sending and receiving mail, also known as a
Mail User Agent
The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal syst ...
program. Being a
console application
A console application is a computer program designed to be used via a text-only computer interface, such as a text terminal, the command-line interface of some operating systems (Unix, DOS, etc.) or the text-based interface included with most gr ...
with a command syntax similar to
ed, it is the
POSIX
The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems. POSIX defines both the system- and user-level application programming inter ...
standardized variant of the Berkeley
Mail
The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal sys ...
utility.
mail, Mail, mailx, nail—history notes
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See also
* mail (Unix)
mail is a command-line email client for Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
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, 19 ...
References
External links
*
History of mail and mailx
from the Heirloom Project
The Heirloom Project is a collection of traditional Unix utilities. Most of them are derived from original Unix source code, as released as open-source by Caldera and Sun.
The project has the following components:
* The Heirloom Toolchest: awk, ...
mailx Tutorial
from the engineering Dpt. at Purdue University
Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and mone ...
at GNU Mailutils manual
Unix SUS2008 utilities
Email client software for Linux
Unix Internet software
Free email software
Console applications
Software using the BSD license
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