Pine
Pine is a program for
Internet News & Email: a tool for reading, sending,
and managing electronic messages. Pine was developed by UW Technology
at the University of
Washington. Though originally designed for inexperienced email users,
Pine has evolved to support many advanced features, with an
ever-growing
number of configuration and personal-preference options.
Pine uses Internet message protocols (e.g. RFC-822, SMTP,
MIME, IMAP, NNTP).
Pine's message composition editor, Pico, is also available as
a separate standalone program. Pico is a very simple and easy-to-use
text editor offering paragraph justification, cut/paste, and a spelling
checker.
Pine is no longer in developed (but remains supported) and has
been replaced by the Alpine client.
Features include:
- Online help specific to each screen and context
- Message index showing a message summary which includes the
status, sender, size, date and subject of messages
- Commands to view and process messages: Forward, Reply,
Save, Export, Print, Delete, capture address, and search
- Message composer with easy-to-use editor and spelling
checker. The message composer also assists entering and formatting
addresses and provides direct access to the address book
- Address book for saving long complex addresses and personal
distribution lists under a nickname
- Message attachments via the Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions (MIME) specification. MIME allows sending/receiving non-text
objects, such as binary files, spreadsheets, graphics, and sound
- Folder management commands for creating, deleting, listing,
or renaming message folders. Folders may be local or on remote hosts
- Access to remote message folders and archives via the
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
- Internet news support via either NNTP or IMAP
- Aggregate operations, e.g. saving a selected set of
messages at once
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