.TH ms l  "8 December 2005"
.SH NAME
ms \- Mail User Agent with IMAP/POP3/NNTP Client Capabilities
.SH SYNTAX
.B ms
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I ms
is a user agent (client) of a distributed electronic mail system using the
Internet Message Access Protocol described in RFC 3501.  Its interface
is a subset of the
.I MM
program on Unix and DEC-20s.  See the mm(l) man page for more details
on this interface.
.PP
.I ms
was written using the
.I CCMD
package developed at Columbia to mimic the command interface on DEC-20s.
Thus, it has copious internal help, completion of partially typed commands 
on escape, and help on partial commands when "?" is typed.
.PP
These are the most useful commands:
.PP
.I GET
mailbox
.sp
.in 10
Open the specified local or remote mailbox.  Remote mailbox names are
in the form {server}mailbox.  The default is INBOX.  For example,
.B GET {FOO.EXAMPLE.COM}
will open your primary mailbox at FOO.EXAMPLE.COM.  You will be prompted
for your username and password at the host.
.in
.sp
.I SEND
address
.sp
.in 10
Send mail to specified address or list of addresses.  All addresses may be
either local (without an "@") or in RFC 822 format.
.in
.sp
.I HEADERS
msgs
.sp
.in 10
Displays a one-line summary of the specified messages.
.in
.sp
.I TYPE
msgs
.sp
.in 10
Types the specified messages.
.in
.sp
.I READ
msgs
.sp
.in 10
Enters read sub-mode on the specified messages.
.in
.sp
.I DELETE
msgs
.sp
.in 10
Delete specified messages from current file.
.in
.sp
.sp
.I EXIT
.sp
.in 10
Permanently removes deleted messages from the mail file, closes any network
connection, and gets out of MS.
.in
.sp
.I HELP
topic
.sp
.in 10
Type a message explaining the specified topic.
.in
.sp
Please type "?" to the "MS>" prompt for a complete list of commands.
After that you can type "HELP" followed by the individual command name, i.e. 
"HELP SEND".
.SH "SEE ALSO"
mm(1), emacs(1), mail(1), sendmail(8),
"HELP MM" on any DEC-20

.SH COPYRIGHT
.I ms
is copyright 1988-2005 by the University of Washington.