Pine is a freeware, text-based email client developed at the University of Washington. The first version of this client was written in 1989. Source code was available for only the Unix version under a license written by the University of Washington. Pine is no longer under development, and has been replaced by the new Alpine client, which is licensed as free software.
Compute Systems |
Invocation |
Version(s) |
Red Hat Linux (64-bit) |
% /util/bin/pine
% /util/bin/alpine
|
2.00 (default) |
Configure Pine to interact with UB's mail servers:
- In your home directory, edit the .pinerc file:
% vi .pinerc
- Set the inbox-path variable:
inbox-path={imap.buffalo.edu/SSL}inbox
You can use Pine to read and post to Usenet newsgroups.
- % pine
- Select [S]etup
- Select [C]onfig
- Set nntp-server = news.buffalo.edu
- Select [E]xit Setup
- Select FOLDER [L]IST
- Select News on news.buffalo.edu/nntp
- Select [A]dd to add a new newsgroup
- Select [^T]o All Gps to select all newsgroups
- Login with your UBIT username and password
- Select [S]ubscribe to subscribe to a newsgroup
- Select [E]xitSubscb to exit from the subscription list
- Select [<] ClctnList to return to the collection list
- Select [M]ain Menu to return to the main menu
- Find the version of Pine that you're running:
% pine -v
Alpine 2.00 (LRH 1167 2008-08-23) built Wed Sep 9 09:28:09 EDT 2009 on lethe.cse.buffalo.edu
- Exit with: :q
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_%28e-mail_client%29
- http://www.washington.edu/pine/
- % man pine