The explanation of generic mail-sending commands in the Section Overview: Sending MH Messages, along with the introduction in the Section Sending Some Mail: comp, send, cover comp pretty well.
Besides starting new mail messages, the main use of comp is editing existing draft messages with the comp -use command. For details, see the Section Working with Draft Messages.
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