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   This section applies to Unix and VMS systems only.  On these
systems, it is possible to compose and send mail directly using JED.
This assumes that the Unix system has `/usr/ucb/mail'.  It is trivial
to modify `mail.sl' to support another Unix mailer.  For VMS, JED uses
the callable mail interface present on VMS versions 5.0 and later.

   The default binding for the mail is  m.  Alternatively, one may
press `ESC X' and enter `mail' at the `M-x' prompt.  The mail function
will cause a window to open with a buffer called `*mail*' which
contains the three lines:

           To:
           Subject:
           ---text follows this line---

Simply enter the email address of the person that you want to send the
mail to on the line containing `To:' and put the subject of the message
on the next line labeled `Subject:'.  The text that you wish to mail
follows the line labeled `---text follows this line---' which is used
by JED as a marker. After you have composed the mail message, press
`ESC X' and enter `send' at the `M-x' prompt.  For example, the
following is an email requesting to be put on the JED mailing list:

           To: davis@space.mit.edu
           Subject: jed mailing list
           ---text follows this line---
           Hi,
     
              Please add me to the JED mailing list so that I may be notified
           of upcoming releases of JED.
     
           --Maria

   For VMS systems, the above example will probably fail because an
internet address has been used for the example.  For systems using a
TCP/IP package, it may be necessary to change
`davis@space.mit.edu' to something like
`smtp%"davis@space.mit.edu"'.

   The mail function looks for a user defined hook called `mail_hook'
and execute it if it exists.  This hook may be used to bind certain
keys in the keymap associated with the `*mail*' buffer.  For example,

             ( "^C"  local_unsetkey "send" "^C^C" local_setkey ) mail_hook

defines the key `' in the mail keymap to perform the `send' function.
Other possibilities include binding a key sequence, say ^C^W, to a
function that inserts the contents of a signature file.