Workalike of the classical mail(1). Heirloom mailx can produce and read MIME and S/MIME messages and has greatly improved character-set handling, including support for UTF-8. . It can send messages through a local /usr/bin/sendmail interface or SMTP, using a smarthost. Mail can be read from local mailboxes as well as via POP3 or IMAP connections. Network protocols can be encrypted using SSL/TLS.
