Advanced features

Pine has other useful features that have not been covered in this introductory document. Although originally designed for novice email users, Pine has evolved to support many advanced features. It has become an easy-to-use program for sending, receiving, and filing Internet electronic mail messages and bulletin board (USENET) messages including multimedia attachments.

If you would like to learn more about Pine:

• Try all of the commands at the bottom of each Pine screen, including the ones that appear when you press O (OTHER CMDS).

• Read Pine's online help. It contains tips to help you at every stage of learning Pine. Read about different functions, even those you don't use yet.

• Explore Pine's other options. To see them, at the Pine Main Menu, press S (Setup). You see a message asking you to choose one of the following tasks:

  • P (Printer) to select a printer

  • N (Newpassword) to change your account password

  • C (Config) to allow advanced users to set different Pine configurations (there are many Pine commands that are not available by default and have to be enabled before you can use them)

  • U (Update) to read technical notes

  • S (Signature) to create an email signature
  At the Pine Main Menu, press R (RelNotes) to see Pine's release notes.