3.1 Sending Mail

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(6) 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(7):

--:--  *scratch*   All L1     (Lisp Interaction)-------------------------
To: wohler
cc:
Subject: Test
X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.1
--------
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(8), 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!

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