Mailx is an enhanced mail command, which provides the functionality of the POSIX mailx command, as well as SysV mail and Berkeley Mail . Additionally to the POSIX features, mailx can work with Maildir/ e-mail storage format , supports IMAP, POP3 and SMTP protocols to operate with remote hosts, handles mime types and different charsets. There are a lot of other useful features, see mailx. And as its ancient analogues, mailx can be used as a mail script language, both for sending and receiving mail. Besides the "mailx" command, this package provides "mail" and "Mail" , as well as "nail" .