This will take you into vi or emacs to edit your letter. When you are done editing it, use the appropriate keys to quit the editor and return to typing in the letter. When you are done entering the letter, press enter, type a period, and press enter to send it. Forwarding mail You can not directly forward mail with mailx, but you can send a mesage to the person you want to forward it to, and read in the old message after having saved it to a file. Type mailx login and enter a subject and such.
Press enter and period and enter to send the mail.
To automatically forward your mail to yourself at another account , you must use a .forward file. Place the address of the account to forward mail to in the first line of the .forward file. The .forward file should be in your home directory. Do not put anything else in the .forward file. Mail will then automatically be forwarded to that email address.