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<h2 id="sec35" class="section">17 Mail</h2>
<p>This section applies to Unix and VMS systems only. On these systems, it
is possible to compose and send mail directly using <span style="font-weight:bold">jed</span>. This assumes
that the Unix system has <code class="verb">/usr/ucb/mail</code>. It is trivial to modify
<code class="verb">mail.sl</code> to support another Unix mailer. For VMS, <span style="font-weight:bold">jed</span> uses the
callable mail interface present on VMS versions 5.0 and later.</p><p>The default binding for the mail is <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Ctrl-X m</span>. Alternatively, one
may press <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Esc X</span> and enter <code class="verb">mail</code> at the <span style="font-family:monospace">M-x</span> prompt.
The mail function will cause a window to open with a buffer called
<code class="verb">*mail*</code> which contains the three lines:
</p><pre class="verbatim"> To:
Subject:
---text follows this line---
</pre><p>
Simply enter the email address of the person that you want to send the
mail to on the line containing <span style="font-family:monospace">To:</span> and put the subject of the
message on the next line labeled <span style="font-family:monospace">Subject:</span>. The text that you wish
to mail follows the line labeled <span style="font-family:monospace">---text follows this line---</span> which
is used by <span style="font-weight:bold">jed</span> as a marker. After you have composed the mail message,
press <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Esc X</span> and enter <code class="verb">send</code> at the <code class="verb">M-x</code> prompt. For
example, the following is an email requesting to be put on the <span style="font-weight:bold">jed</span> mailing
list:</p><pre class="verbatim"> To: jed@jedsoft.org
Subject: jed mailing list
---text follows this line---
Hi,
Please add me to the JED mailing list so that I may be notified
of upcoming releases of JED.
--Maria
</pre><p>For VMS systems, the above example will probably fail because an internet
address has been used for the example. For systems using a TCP/IP
package, it may be necessary to change <span style="font-family:monospace">jed@jedsoft.org</span> to
something
like <span style="font-family:monospace">smtp%"jed@jedsoft.org"</span>.</p><p>The mail function looks for a user defined hook called <code class="verb">mail_hook</code> and
execute it if it exists. This hook may be used to bind certain keys in
the keymap associated with the <code class="verb">*mail*</code> buffer. For example,</p><pre class="verbatim"> define mail_hook ()
{
local_unsetkey ("^C");
local_setkey ("send", "^C^C");
}
</pre><p>defines the key <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Ctrl-C Ctrl-C</span> in the mail keymap to perform the
<code class="verb">send</code> function. Other possibilities include binding a key sequence,
say <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Ctrl-C Ctrl-W</span>, to a function that inserts the contents of a
signature file.</p>
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