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How To Use Pine To Check Your E-mail

You can log in to our shell server and send, receive, and view your mail using the mail editor program Pine. Pine ( short for "Program for Internet News & Email") is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages.

You will need a Telnet program (NCSA Telnet, Trumpet Telnet, CRT Telnet, etc.) to do this.

• Launch the Telnet program
• Go to the File menu, choose Open Connection... (On PC Telnet programs most likely it will be File --> Connect...)
• For Host Name type "shell.lmi.net", hit Return (Other settings that may be required on a PC Telnet program would be: Protocol: telnet, Port: 23, Emulation: VT100).
• At the login prompt type your login name, then hit Return.
• At the password prompt type your password, then hit Return.
• At the Unix prompt type: pine
• If this is the first time you are using Pine you will be asked: "SPECIAL OFFER: Would you like to receive (via email) a brief document entitled "Secrets of Pine" ? Request document?" Type y for Yes or n for No.

• From the Main Menu, use the arrow keys to highlight the "S SETUP - Configure or update Pine" option, and then hit Enter (or just type "s").
• Choose "C" for "Config".
• Use the arrow keys to highlight the option that you want and Hit enter when it's highlighted. Make your change and hit Enter again
• A few configuration option you may want to change are:
  personal-name = Your Name
  user-domain = lmi.net [or your own custom domain]
  smtp-server = smtp.lmi.net
• choose"E" for "Exit Config" when you're done.

• From the Main menu use the arrow keys to highlight the "L FOLDER LIST - Select a folder to view" option (or just type"l")
• Hit Return to list folders
• Then you'll get a screen where the [ Select Here to See Expanded List ] option will be highlighted
• Hit Return to go to the list of folders
• Then you'll get a screen where the Inbox option will be highlighted: INBOX
• Hit Return to go to your Inbox
• There will be all your mail messages
• Use the up and down arrow keys to highlight a message, hit Return to view it
• Look at the commands at the bottom of the screen to help you navigate
• After viewing a message, type "i" to return to the message Index
• When in the message Index, you can type "d" when a message is highlighted to delete it.

• From the Main Menu use the arrow keys to highlight the "COMPOSE MESSAGE - Compose and send/post a message" option and then hit Enter (or just type"c"). It will create a new message.
• Type in the recipient's e-mail address. Hit the Tab key to get to the next line.
• If you want to send a copy of the message to another person, type their e-mail address on the CC line. Hit Tab to get to the next line.
• Hit Tab again to get to the Subject of the e-mail message. Type in the subject of the message.
• Hit Tab again to get to the body of the e-mail message. Type your message. When you are done typing your message hit CTRL-X (hold down control key and then type the X key) to send the message.When it asks "Send message?" type y for yes. The message will then be sent.
• To exit out of the Pine program hit "m" for Main Menu, then "q" for quit
• Hit "y" when it asks if you really want to quit
• At the Unix prompt, type: logout
• Now you can quit out of the Telnet program (File--> Quit for Mac users, File --> Exit for PC users).