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interface is quick and efficient. Type mutt to start the program. Move arrow keys up and down to select
from your listed messages. Press Enter to see a mail message, and type i to return to the Main menu.
The menu bar indicates how to mark messages for deletion, undelete them, save messages to a directory,
and reply to a message. Type m to compose a new message, and it opens your default editor
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(vi, for example) to create the message. Type y to send the message. If you want to read mail without
having your fingers leave your keyboard, mutt is a nice choice. (It even handles attachments!)
Pine Mail Reader
The pine mail reader is another full-screen mail reader, but it offers many more features than does
mutt. With pine, you can manage multiple mail folders and newsgroup messages as well as mail
messages. As text-based applications go, pine is quite easy to use. It was developed by a group at
the University of Washington for use by students on campus, but has become widely used in UNIX
and Linux environments.
Start this mail program by typing pine. After a brief startup message that invites you to count yourself
as a pine user, you should see the following menu, from which you can select items by typing
the associated letter or using up and down arrows and pressing Enter:
? HELP - Get help using Pine
C COMPOSE MESSAGE - Compose and send a message
I MESSAGE INDEX - View messages in current folder
L FOLDER LIST - Select a folder to view
A ADDRESS BOOK - Update address book
S SETUP - Configure Pine Options
Q QUIT - Leave the Pine program
To read your e-mail, select either I or L.
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