Well, I'm finally vaguely comfortable in plan 9. I even have a commit in for something trivial now :) But some things are a pain in the ass, so I'm writing them down. Mail: Nothing actually tells you how you're supposed to get your damn mail, so here you go: You want to start upas/fs in your profile, before rio gets ran so that it's available to all your programs. This'll create /mail/fs for you. You need to then actually create your mailbox using /mail/fs/ctl The syntax is create mboxname. The mboxname is the actual important bit, including the protocol. If your e-mail address is test@example.com and you access your mail via imaps (you almost certainly do) then what you want is: .