Next: FAQ 5-2, Up: FAQ 5 - Composing messages

##### Question 5.1

What are the basic commands I need to know for sending mail and postings?

##### Answer

To start composing a new mail hit ‘`m`’ either in Group or Summary buffer, for a posting, it's either ‘`a`’ in Group buffer and filling the Newsgroups header manually or ‘`a`’ in the Summary buffer of the group where the posting shall be send to. Replying by mail is ‘`r`’ if you don't want to cite the author, or import the cited text manually and ‘`R`’ to cite the text of the original message. For a follow up to a newsgroup, it's ‘`f`’ and ‘`F`’ (analogously to ‘`r`’ and ‘`R`’).

Enter new headers above the line saying "–text follows this line–", enter the text below the line. When ready hit ‘`C-c C-c`’, to send the message, if you want to finish it later hit ‘`C-c C-d`’ to save it in the drafts group, where you can start editing it again by saying ‘`D e`’.