mh-e: Sending Mail Tour
3.1 Sending Mail
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Let’s start our tour by sending ourselves a message which we can later
read and process. Enter ‘M-x mh-smail’ to invoke the MH-E program to
send messages. Your message appears in an Emacs buffer whose mode(1) is
MH-Letter.
Enter your login name in the ‘To:’ header field. Press the <TAB>
twice to move the cursor past the ‘Cc:’ field, since no carbon copies
are to be sent, and on to the ‘Subject:’ field. Enter ‘Test’ or
anything else that comes to mind.
Press <TAB> again to move the cursor to the body of the message.
Enter some text, using normal Emacs commands. You should now have
something like this(2):
--:-- *scratch* All L1 (Lisp Interaction)-------------------------
To: wohler
cc:
Subject: Test
X-Mailer: MH-E 8.1; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 23.1
--------
This is a test message to get the wheels churning...#
--:** {draft} All L5 (MH-Letter)----------------------------------
Type C-c C-c to send message, C-C ? for help
MH-E message composition window
Note the line of dashes that separates the header and the body of the
message. It is essential that these dashes (or a blank line) are
present or the body of your message will be considered to be part of the
header.
There are several commands specific to MH-Letter mode(3), but at this
time we’ll only use ‘C-c C-c’ to send your message. Type ‘C-c C-c’ now.
That’s all there is to it!
---------- Footnotes ----------
(1) A “mode” changes Emacs to make it easier to edit a particular
type of text.
(2) If you’re running Emacs under the X Window System, then you would
also see a menu bar and a tool bar. I’ve left out the menu bar and tool
bar in all of the example screens.
(3) You can get quick help for the commands used most often with ‘C-c
?’ or more complete help with the ‘C-h m’ (‘describe-mode’) command.
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