Hi folks,
It’s been a while. Here’s a quick post on how to read local mails on your MacOS. This can come in handy if you have cron jobs running on your machine for example which send mails and you want to read the mails sent.
To open mail, open a terminal and run the command
You will see the number of messages, number of unread messages and one line per message, including sender, time of receipt, and mail title. There will be a number shown for each mail starting from 1, then 2, etc.
To read a single mail, say the first 1, just type 1.
Then you can go up and down the mail by pressing Enter, or ctrl + B to go up a page and ctrl + F to scroll down a page.
Once you reach the end of the mail the prompt will change to ?
You can delete the mail by pressing
d <mail number>
To save your changes to mail, e.g. deletion, etc. press the command
q
To exit mail without making any changes to number of read mails, etc, press command
exit
To read about mail command in general, enter the command
man mail
That’s all for now, happy mailing.