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pine(1) UNIX System V (Version 3.85) pine(1)
NAME
pine - read and send electronic mail with an easy
user interface
SYNTAX
pine [-r] [-k] [-z] [-h] [-l] [-conf]
[-f folder ] [-d debug-level ] [-n message-num]
[-sort order ] [-i keystrokes ] [-p config-file ]
[-P config-file ] [ address , address ]
pinef [-r] [-z] [-h] [-l] [-conf] [-f folder ]
[-d debug- level] [-n message-num ] [-sort order]
[-i keystrokes ] [-p config-file ]
[-P config-file ] [ address , address ]
DESCRIPTION
Pine is a mail user agent designed primarily for
novice users, though it's full-featured enough
for processing large amounts of mail. Pine is
completely interactive and runs on 80x24 or
larger terminals, making use of the full screen.
Some of the design principles were to keep things
simple and straight-forward with a limited number
of well selected features; to provide the user
with a menu to pick commands from; to be
forgiving of mistakes so the user can learn
while doing without fear of disaster, and to
provide immediate feedback to the user for
each command. Pine has its own tightly
integrated pager for scrolling though
incoming messages and its own editor (Pico) for
composing messages.
Pine uses the c-client library to access mail
files. The c- client acts as a switch
between different mail file formats/drivers.
Currently it understands Berkeley mail files,
Tenex mail files, the IMAP2bis protocol, and
NetNews. IMAP2bis is the Interactive Mail Access
Protocol described in RFC 1176 and modified by
the IMAP2bis draft paper. With an IMAP server
such as imapd running on a central host users
can access their e-mail from many different hosts
on the network without having to login to the
central host.
Outgoing mail is usually handed off to sendmail,
but it can also be posted directly via SMTP when
configured to do so in the .pinerc file or the
global pine.conf file. (SMTP is the Simple
Mail Transfer Protocol defined in RFC-822).
Pine also supports MIME, The Multipurpose Internet
Mail Extensions defined in RFC-1341. This allows
Pine to send and receive multipart and multimedia
e-mail. Pine meets the minimal MIME compliance
requirements and is able to view most parts of
any received MIME message and to save all parts
to files, whatever their format. On the
composing side, the focus of the MIME
implementation has been to allow users to
attach files to messages so they can transfer
arbitrary messages, rather than on creating
true multi-media e-mail with graphics and sounds.
This allows UNIX Pine and PC-Pine users to mail
spreadsheets and other such files back and
forth. Pine will recognize a few of the multimedia
formats such as GIF files. When they are attached
they are tagged as being images and if Pine is
running on an X- terminal it will call xloadimage
to display them.
The command line options are:
-d debug-level Debugging will be output to
the .pine- debugX file at
level debug-level (0-9). A
debug-level of 0 turns
debugging off for the
session.
-f folder Open named folder (in place
of INBOX) on startup
-i keystrokes Initial (comma separated list
of) keystrokes which Pine
should execute on startup. If
no keystrokes are specified,
Pine starts up in the FOLDER
INDEX screen.
-k Use function keys for commands.
This is the same as running
the command pinef.
-l When displaying folder list,
expand all collections.
-n message-num Pine will start up with the
specified message number
being the current message.
-p config-file Used the named file as the
configuration file instead
of .pinerc.
-P config-file Used the named file as the
configuration file instead
of the regular system-wide
configuration file pine.conf.
-r Go into restricted demo mode.
Pine will only send mail to
itself and functions like save
and export are restricted.
-sort order Sort the display of the index
of the folder in one of
the following orders: arrival,
subject, from, date, size, or
reverse. Arrival order is the
default. Any sort may be
reversed by adding /reverse
to it. Reverse by itself is
the same as arrival/reverse.
-z Enable ^Z or SIGTSTP so pine
may be suspended.
address Send mail to address. This
will cause Pine to go directly
into the message composer.
-h Print out help on the possible
flags and arguments that can
be give in Pine.
-conf Produce a sample/fresh copy of
the system Pine configuration
file on the standard output.
This is distinct from
the per user .pinerc file.
This documentation is not intended to be complete.
The help screens in Pine constitute the main
documentation. There are also some technical
notes with the source. A general overview of
features includes:
View, save, export, delete, print, reply and
forward incoming mail.
Compose message in a simple editor with word
wrap and spelling checker. A message under
composition may be temporarily postponed
while other work in Pine is being done.
Full screen selection and management of mail
folders.
Address book to keep a list of long or
frequently used addresses. Distribution
lists are available and may refer to
other lists or entries as many levels deep as
desired. Address book entries can be taken
from incoming mail without retyping them.
New mail checking and notification occurs
automatically every thirty seconds.
On-line, context-sensitive help screens.
FILES
/usr/spool/mail/xxxx Folder for incoming
mail
~/.addressbook Ascii address book file
~/mail Directory of mail
folders
~/.pine-debugx Diagnostic log for
debugging
~/.pinerc The user pine
configuration file
/usr/local/lib/pine.info Local pointer to system
administrator
/usr/local/lib/pine.conf System wide pine
configuration file
/tmp/.\usr\spool\mail\xxxx Read/write per
folder/mailbox lock
files
SEE ALSO
pico(1), binmail(1), aliases(5), mailaddr(7),
sendmail(8), spell(1), imapd(8)
AUTHORS
Mike Seibel, Steve Hubert, David Miller, and
Mark Crispin, with contributions on the design
from many others
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Tuesday, 22-Aug-2006 07:14:16 EDT