Regarding Mail concept in unix

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,

I am new to this mail concept in unix. i have requirement to read the mail from mailbox.
Now to get the mail where i have to configure the mail id and also the mail server.

Kindly suggest me.

Thanks in advance.

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Can you please rephrase this maybe? It's all Greek to me.

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I have to configure the mail id to receive mail in unix. where can i do this as i don't have any idea regarding mail concept .

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How do you know that you have to configure a mail id when you say you have no clue about Unix mail?

Are you just trying to read and send mail from a mail client or do you want to set up a mail server?

If it is just this, then you simply enter mail when being logged in and you will see a list of mail in your mailbox. If you want to automate a mail that was sent to your account, you might want to create a .forward in your home directory and start the line in there with a pipe, followed by some useful command.