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(mh-e)Sending Mail Tour

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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.  You will be prompted in the minibuffer by `To:'.
Enter your login name.  The next prompt is `cc:'.  Hit <RET> to
indicate that no carbon copies are to be sent.  At the `Subject:'
prompt, enter `Test' or anything else that comes to mind.

   Once you've specified the recipients and subject, your message
appears in an Emacs buffer whose mode (1) is MH-Letter.  Enter some
text in the body of the message, using normal Emacs commands.  You
should now have something like this: (2)







     -----Emacs: *scratch*         (Lisp Interaction)--All-------------------
     To: wohler
     cc:
     Subject: Test
     --------
       This is a test message to get the wheels churning...#
     
     
     --**-{draft}      (MH-Letter)--All-------------------------------------
     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, 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 menubar.  I've left out the menubar in all of the
example screens.