How to Send Pine Mail Messages

After you compose a message, you can choose to send it, postpone it (send it later), or cancel it.

How to Send a Message

Press the ^X key combination. You will see a screen that looks like the following:

At the bottom of this screen you should see the following program prompt:
```
Send message?
```

You have the choice whether to send the message or not: press Y to send the message or N not to send the message.

For this exercise, press Y to send the message. You should see a screen similar to the following:

Important Note
Once you send a message, you cannot retrieve it. (However, if you want to see a copy of the message you sent, one is saved in your sent-mail folder.)

How to Postpone a Message

If you had composed a message but decided to send it later (so you won't have to type it again), you can postpone the message.

While viewing the composition screen, press the ^O key combination to postpone sending the message. You will see a screen that looks similar to the following:

At the bottom of this screen you should see the following program prompt:
```
Composition postponed. Select Compose to resume.
```
To return to composing your postponed message, press C. You will see a screen that looks similar to the following:

At the bottom of this screen you should see the following program prompt:
```
Continue postponed composition (answering No won't erase it)?
```

You can select to continue composing the postponed message or not: press Y to continue composing the message or press N to stop composing the message.

If you want to send the message, press Y and finish composing the message.
Press the CTRL-X key combination to send it.

Note
If you want to compose a new message while you have a postponed message, press N. When you start a new message, the postponed message will be saved in a folder called postponed-msgs, which is created automatically by the Pine Mail program.

The first time you postpone a message, the program will prompt you to create the file. Press Y to select yes.

How to Cancel a Message

Press the ^C key combination. At the bottom of the screen you should see the following program prompt:
```
Cancel message (answering Yes will abandon your mail
message)?
```

To cancel the message, press Y. To continue composing the message, press N.
Important Note
If you press Y in response to the cancel prompt, you will not be able to return to your cancelled message. Instead, you will see the following program message at the bottom of the screen:
```
Message cancelled and copied to dead.letter file
```
The dead.letter file is created automatically by the Pine Mail program.

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