This section appears as well in the document 'The CERN Electronic Mail User Guide'. A sophisticated mail program comes bundled with most flavors of Unix operating systems (e.g. Mail on Berkeley Unix or mailx on System V). It interfaces to sendmail, a Unix facility for mail routing.
Some Unix users prefer to use the elm or pine user interface to Unix mail. Elm (with the underlying metamail)and pine are public domain mail reading programs with multimedia capabilities. They are available on dxcern and on asis for workstation users. Information on release changes and documentation will be published in the newsgroup cern.mail.
In order to try them type elm or pine from the shell prompt. The most common mail(x), elm, pine commands are listed in the relevant 'Getting Started' sections below.