
\S electronic mail \S

Electronic mail is a means of communicating with people through the
computer. Electronic mail allows you to send messages to and receive and
read messages from UNIX system users on your "local system"\S*\S and on
"remote systems"\S*\S.  mail(1) and mailx(1) are commands that are used
to transmit electronic mail on UNIX systems.

\S*\S defined in the \Sglossary\S
