Processing Mail
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The first thing we want to do is reply to the message that we sent
ourselves.
Ensure that the cursor is still on the same line as your
test message and type
r.
You are prompted in the minibuffer with
Reply to whom:.
Here mh-e is asking whether you'd like to reply to the original sender
only, to the sender and primary recipients, or to the sender and all
recipients.
If you simply hit RET, you'll reply only to the sender.
Hit RET now.
You'll find yourself in an Emacs buffer similar to that when you were
sending the original message, like the Figure
Composition window during reply:
Figure: Composition window during reply
By default, MH will not add you to the address list of your replies,
so if you find that the
To:
header field is missing, don't worry.
In this case, type
C-c C-f C-t
to create and go to the
To:
field, where you can type your login name again.
You can move around with the arrow keys or with
C-p (previous-line),
C-n (next-line),
C-b (backward-char),
and
C-f (forward-char)
and can delete the previous character with DEL.
When you're finished editing your message, send it with
C-c C-c
as before.
With your cursor in the MH-Folder buffer and positioned on the message
you sent to yourself, type
o
to output
(refile
in MH parlance) that message to a folder.
Enter
test
at the
Destination:
prompt and type
y
(or SPC) when mh-e asks to create the folder
+test.
Note that a
^
(caret) appears next to the message number, which means that the message has
been marked for refiling but has not yet been refiled.
We'll talk about how to actually carry out the refile in a moment.
Your previous reply is now waiting in the system mailbox.
You incorporate this mail into your
MH-Folder
buffer named
+inbox
with the
i
command.
Do this now.
After the mail is incorporated, use
n
or
p
to move the cursor to the new message, and read it with
RET.
Let's delete this message by typing
d.
Note that a
D
appears next to the message number.
This means that the message is marked for deletion but is not yet deleted.
To perform the deletion (and the refile we did previously), use the
x
command.
If you want to send another message you can use
m
instead of
M-x mh-smail.
So go ahead, send some mail to your friends!
Send some mail to me at
the email address at the end of this page.
I'd love to hear your comments and suggestions.
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