[Techtalk] email question

[Judith Elaine Bush]

> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, P Casper wrote:
> > Way back when (college), we used to use "from" on the command line to do
> > that, but I haven't been able to find the utility to install it on my
> > system.


I'm on a bsd system and use from all the time. I just checked, and it's on my Debian box, too.



FROM(1)                 FreeBSD General Commands Manual                FROM(1)

NAME
     from - print names of those who have sent mail

[delitia]

FILES
     /var/mail/*

SEE ALSO
     biff(1),  mail(1)

HISTORY
     The from command appeared in 3.0BSD.