MAIL (Land or Sea)
Displays mail/attack messages sent to you. Mail will automatically
be displayed (if you have some) just prior to displaying the
main prompt. All mail is deleted from the data base as it is
first received. Old mail is added to a hold file for later
review or printing. The hold file is erased upon exiting Empire,
switching nations or by using the CLEAR option.
MA[il] [CLEAR] [OF[F]] [ON] [P[rint]] [R[eview]] Where: CLEAR = Will clear all old mail from the holding file. OFF = Disables automatic mail reception. ON = Enables automatic mail reception. PRINT = Will display all mail in the holding file to the current outfile. REVIEW = Will display all mail in the holding file to your terminal.Example:
[BOGUS 13 : No Capitol]: mail [7049.13] BOGUS[8] Submarine #32 torpedoed and sank Submarine #16 at 128,128 [7103.13] BOGUS[8] Submarine #38 fired 10 shells at sector 11,4 on PRIMUS 025[#25] island killing 1144 people [7103.25] BOGUS[8] dropped 230 bombs on 12 sectors of PRIMUS 025[#25] island killing 24527 people. 26 enemy bombers were shot down. You lost 17 fighters [7103.25] BOGUS[8] dropped 330 bombs on 12 sectors of PRIMUS 025[#25] island killing 4216 people. 17 enemy bombers were shot down. You lost 7 fighters [7103.38] BOGUS[8] dropped 410 bombs on 4 sectors of PRIMUS 025[#25] island killing 5645 people. 9 enemy bombers were shot down. You lost 8 fighters [7103.38] BOGUS[8] Submarine #38 assaulted sector 11,4 on PRIMUS 025[#25] killing 6 people