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(mh-e)Sending Mail

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Sending Mail
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   You can send a mail message in several ways.  You can call `M-x
mh-smail' directly, or from the command line like this:

     % emacs -f mh-smail

   From within mh-e's MH-Folder mode, other methods of sending mail are
available as well:

`m'
     Compose a message (`mh-send').

`r'
     Reply to a message (`mh-reply').

`f'
     Forward message(s) (`mh-forward').

`M-d'
     Redistribute a message (`mh-redistribute').

`M-e'
     Edit a message that was bounced by mailer
     (`mh-extract-rejected-mail').

`M-a'
     Edit a message to send it again (`mh-edit-again').

   From within a MH-Folder buffer, you can simply use the command `m'
(`mh-send').  However you invoke `mh-send', you are prompted for the
`To:', `cc:', and `Subject:' header fields.  Once you've specified the
recipients and subject, your message appears in an Emacs buffer whose
mode is MH-Letter (see the Figure in Note: Sending Mail to see what
the buffer looks like).  MH-Letter mode allows you to edit your
message, to check the validity of the recipients, to insert other
messages into your message, and to send the message.  We'll go more
into depth about editing a "draft" (1) (a message you're composing) in
just a moment.

   `mh-smail' always creates a two-window layout with the current
buffer on top and the draft on the bottom.  If you would rather preserve
the window layout, use `M-x mh-smail-other-window'.

Replying

Forwarding

Redistributing

Old Drafts

   ---------- Footnotes ----------

   (1) I highly recommend that you use a "draft folder" so that you can
edit several drafts in parallel.  To do so, create a folder (e.g.,
`+drafts'), and add a profile component called `Draft-Folder:' which
contains `+drafts' (see `mh-profile'(5)).