Article:		Learning the Mac OS X Terminal: Part 1
Subject:		Mail in OS X Terminal?
Date:		2004-05-01 18:47:20
From:		surfs
I launched my Terminal and I get this: Last login: Fri Apr 30 23:11:53 on console Welcome to Darwin! You have new mail. It says I have new mail - but how do I check it with the terminal? I tried using the mail.app, but nothing. Anyone know how? Thanks in advance!

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• Mail in OS X Terminal?
  2004-05-02 15:54:12  lpb2h [View]
  
  
  At the command line, type:
  /usr/bin/mail
  That runs the mail client on your system. Long before http, this is how many UNIX people read mail.
  See "man mail" for details.
  If when you type "which mail" you get "/usr/bin/mail" then you can just type "mail" to read mail.