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category: tutorial
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Your shiny, new tilde.club account comes with an email account. `alpine` is a command-line email application to use it, as is `mutt`. Good old-fashioned `mail` works too, although it's a little cryptic.
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Your shiny, new tilde.club account comes with an email account. `alpine` is a command-line email application to use it, as is `mutt`. [Good old-fashioned `mail` works too](#using-traditional-unix-mail-program), once configured properly; although it's a little cryptic.
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`alpine` is menu driven, and the menus are self-explanatory; it's surprisingly easy to learn, and surprisingly powerful when you want to customize it.
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where people write Sieve filter
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to redirect unsolicited emails into <q>Junk</q> folder)
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## Using Traditional Unix Mail Program
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A traditional Unix `mail` program provided on Tilde.club
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is [Heirloom Mailx](https://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html).
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In its default configuration,
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it works for sending emails,
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but not receiving;
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due to the incoming [mailbox format](#mailbox-format)
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used in Tilde.club
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not being the old style system-wide centralized inbox folders
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used in the olden days,
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which the program expects by default.
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However,
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for anyone who are soughting for a traditional Unix mail experience,
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or is experimenting with Tilde.club using a real teleprinter;
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Heirloom Mailx could be configured
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to operate directly on your Tilde.club mailbox,
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with some quirks,
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by adding the following lines to your `~/.mailrc`
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or create it with the following lines if not already existing
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(substitute `USERNAME` part with your Tilde.club username):
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set MAIL=/home/USERNAME/.mail
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set folder=.mail
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set emptybox
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set newfolders=maildir
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set record=+.sent-mail
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Once you did so,
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running `mail` would now show the list your emails
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if you have any in your inbox.
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(Type `q` and press <kbd>Enter</kbd> to quit)
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Tips:
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- Set your `PAGER` and `EDITOR` environment variables properly;
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unless you really want to view your emails through `more`
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and/or compose your emails through `ed`.
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(Even if you are really using a teleprinter,
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it is still a good idea to set these explicitly however)
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- Type `?` and press <kbd>Enter</kbd> for in-program help.
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Also read a manual
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(`man mail` from the main system command line).
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- Heirloom Mailx does not understand the Maildir++ subfolder structure;
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so you will have to type the name of subdirectory
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as seen in the filesystem
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(including its dot prefix)
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when changing folder.
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For example,
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use command:
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folder +.sent-mail
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to view the emails you have sent.
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(See [mailbox format](#mailbox-format)
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below for the default folders available)
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- When changing to view mail folder other than inbox,
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you nearly always want to prefix it with `+`;
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which means the folder is a subdirectory of the main email folder.
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- When changing to view the main inbox folder,
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simply use `%` as folder name
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without any prefix.
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- Marking email as junk here
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does not do a thing you would normally expect
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from modern email clients
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or webmails;
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so don't do it.
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## Mailbox Format
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Tilde.club uses [Dovecot](https://www.dovecot.org/) as a local mail delivery agent
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