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The pine mail system

  pine is a mail user agent designed primarily for novice users, but it is full featured enough for processing large amounts of mail.

Like elm the main header index and mini-menu of commands are displayed upon initialisation and at any point when awaiting input. The help screens in pine constitute the main documentation, but if more information is required refer to the man pages.

pine can be invoked be typing pine at the shell prompt.

The major features of pine include: view, save, export, delete, print, reply and forwarding of incoming mail, as well as the composition and sending of mail. Use of the control keys as described on the bottom line of the main menu and following the instructions on the bottom of the screen, will enable easy use of pine.

It is possible to read elm folders through pine if you enter:
mail-directory=Mail in your ~/.pinerc file.

pine supports MIME, The Multipart Internet Mail Extensions, which enables pine to send and receive multimedia Email.

Optional features include sorting, address book and spelling checker.

For more information on pine refer to the man pages and to the file /usr/local/lib/pine.info on dxcern. Also on ASIS refer to the directory /afs/cern.ch/asis/share/usr.local/doc/pine or via anonymous ftp at asisftp:/pub/doc/pine.



Alan Silverman
Wed Apr 12 16:54:02 METDST 1995