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(mh-e)Reading Mail Tour

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Receiving Mail
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   To read the mail you've just sent yourself, enter `M-x mh-rmail'.
This incorporates the new mail and put the output from `inc' (called
"scan lines" after the MH program `scan' which prints a one-line
summary of each message) into a buffer called `+inbox' whose major mode
is MH-Folder.



                                *NOTE*
     The `M-x mh-rmail' command will show you only new mail, not old
     mail.  If you were to run this tour again, you would use `M-r' to
     pull all your messages into mh-e.

   You should see the scan line for your message, and perhaps others.
Use `n' or `p' to move the cursor to your test message and type <RET>
to read your message.  You should see something like:

       3  24Aug root      received fax files on Wed Aug 24 11:00:13 PDT 1994
     # 4+ 24Aug To:wohler Test<<This is a test message to get the wheels chu
     
     --%%-{+inbox} 4 msgs (1-4)      (MH-Folder Show)--Bot------------------
     To: wohler
     Subject: Test
     Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 13:01:13 -0700
     From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
     
       This is a test message to get the wheels churning...
     
     
     
     
     
     -----{show-+inbox} 4      (MH-Show)--Bot-------------------------------
     After incorporating new messages

   If you typed a long message, you can view subsequent pages with <SPC>
and previous pages with <DEL>.