mailx is a

Unix Unix (, ; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user 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, a ...

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 sy ...

program. Being a console application with a command syntax similar to ed, it is the

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standardized variant of the Berkeley

Mail The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letter (message), letters, and parcel (package), parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid ...

utility.mail, Mail, mailx, nail—history notes
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History of mail and mailx
from the Heirloom Project
mailx Tutorial
from the engineering Dpt. at

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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 {{unix-stub

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