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-Your shiny, new tilde.club account comes with an email account. `alpine` is a command-line email application to use it, as is `mutt`. Good old-fashioned `mail` works too, although it's a little cryptic.
+Your shiny, new tilde.club account comes with an email account. `alpine` is a command-line email application to use it, as is `mutt`. [Good old-fashioned `mail` works too](#using-traditional-unix-mail-program), once configured properly; although it's a little cryptic.
`alpine` is menu driven, and the menus are self-explanatory; it's surprisingly easy to learn, and surprisingly powerful when you want to customize it.
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where people write Sieve filter
to redirect unsolicited emails into Junk
folder)
+## Using Traditional Unix Mail Program
+
+A traditional Unix `mail` program provided on Tilde.club
+is [Heirloom Mailx](https://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html).
+In its default configuration,
+it works for sending emails,
+but not receiving;
+due to the incoming [mailbox format](#mailbox-format)
+used in Tilde.club
+not being the old style system-wide centralized inbox folders
+used in the olden days,
+which the program expects by default.
+
+However,
+for anyone who are soughting for a traditional Unix mail experience,
+or is experimenting with Tilde.club using a real teleprinter;
+Heirloom Mailx could be configured
+to operate directly on your Tilde.club mailbox,
+with some quirks,
+by adding the following lines to your `~/.mailrc`
+or create it with the following lines if not already existing
+(substitute `USERNAME` part with your Tilde.club username):
+
+ set MAIL=/home/USERNAME/.mail
+ set folder=.mail
+ set emptybox
+ set newfolders=maildir
+ set record=+.sent-mail
+
+Once you did so,
+running `mail` would now show the list your emails
+if you have any in your inbox.
+(Type `q` and press Enter to quit)
+
+Tips:
+
+- Set your `PAGER` and `EDITOR` environment variables properly;
+ unless you really want to view your emails through `more`
+ and/or compose your emails through `ed`.
+ (Even if you are really using a teleprinter,
+ it is still a good idea to set these explicitly however)
+- Type `?` and press Enter for in-program help.
+ Also read a manual
+ (`man mail` from the main system command line).
+- Heirloom Mailx does not understand the Maildir++ subfolder structure;
+ so you will have to type the name of subdirectory
+ as seen in the filesystem
+ (including its dot prefix)
+ when changing folder.
+ For example,
+ use command:
+
+ folder +.sent-mail
+
+ to view the emails you have sent.
+ (See [mailbox format](#mailbox-format)
+ below for the default folders available)
+- When changing to view mail folder other than inbox,
+ you nearly always want to prefix it with `+`;
+ which means the folder is a subdirectory of the main email folder.
+- When changing to view the main inbox folder,
+ simply use `%` as folder name
+ without any prefix.
+- Marking email as junk here
+ does not do a thing you would normally expect
+ from modern email clients
+ or webmails;
+ so don't do it.
+
## Mailbox Format
Tilde.club uses [Dovecot](https://www.dovecot.org/) as a local mail delivery agent