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| + | ====== Using PINE ====== | ||
| + | PINE is a very nice mail program that "naive users could use without fear of making mistakes", according to the developers at the University of Washington in Seattle. Originally developed in 1989, Pine has gone through many iterations and improvements over the years. The latest release includes many nice features that make Pine one of the most popular mailer programs in the Unix environment. | ||
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| + | Pine also offers a very simple stand-alone editor named **"pico"** to provide an environment for text editing that can be used to compose a long email message of just a text file for other uses. | ||
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| + | The current version of PINE (4.33) supports the following Internet protocols and specifications: | ||
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| + | * SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol)) | ||
| + | * NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol) | ||
| + | * MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) | ||
| + | * IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) | ||
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| + | With MIME you may attach any kind of file to your text message. For example, you may use PINE to send an image (or images) of your experimental results to your professor, who is very eager to see your them while vacationing on the beaches of the Bahamas. | ||
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| + | To send a message using pine, you can simply type in the following command at a Unix shell prompt: | ||
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| + | % pine [e-mail address] | ||
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| + | For example, if you want to send a message to staff@physics.purdue.edu, enter the following line: | ||
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| + | % pine staff@physics.purdue.edu | ||
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| + | This will envoke the PINE mailer with the "To:" field containing the intended address. A typical composing window is shown in Figure 1 below (please read the text in the message body for some comments about the use of pine): | ||
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| + | To envoke the PINE mailer without going directly to the composing window (get to the main menu) , enter "pine" (without an address) at the shell prompt. This will yield a MAIN MENU window, where you may choose to open your FOLDER LIST, compose a message, create/edit an address book, or change the default configuration in the SETUP menu choice. | ||
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| + | To read/check your mail messages, select the FOLDER LIST (L) menu by using the cursor to highlight the desired menu and press the ENTER key. Alternately, you may type in the first letter associated with the particular menu choice. For example, you may type in "L" to select FOLDER LIST menu. Next, choose the default highlighted menu (expanded list) to enter the IMAP Folder Collection, which contains your Inbox, Outbox, and other user-defined boxes. Select Inbox to bring up a list of incoming mail you've received. Scroll down the list to the particular message and hit the ENTER key to read the message content. A screen shot of a typical MAIN MENU display is shown in Figure 2. | ||
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| + | Figure 2 - A typical MAIN MENU in a Pine window in Unix environment. | ||
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| + | You may also reset the default values in your SETUP CONFIGURATION by choosing the SETUP option from the MAIN MENU. Choose "Config" to enter the configuration menu. Here you may change the sender's name, the path where your address book is located, how responses look, etc. | ||
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| + | More information on the use of Pine is available in the on-line help file. | ||