Mail - pine

Pine is the preferred mail reader available in the Edlab (other possibilities include: elm, rmail mode in emacs, Netscape mail, or the standard UNIX mail program).
Pine is an easy-to-use electronic mail (email) program that was created at the University of Washington. More information on pine can be found at http://www.washington.edu/pine/ To start pine, type pine at the unix prompt. After starting Pine, the Main Menu screen appears. Each Pine screen has a similar layout: the top line tells you the screen name and additional useful information, below that is the work area, then the message/prompt line, and finally the menu of commands.

From the Main Menu you can choose to read online help, write (compose) and send a message, look at an index of your mail messages, open or maintain your mail folders, update your address book, configure Pine, and quit Pine. When you want to leave Pine, press Q (Quit).