Sending e-mail with pine

Our next favorite thing to do with pine is to send new messages. Commonly, you'll send messages after you've already started pine (Figure 11.8), but you can also start a new message directly from the shell prompt (see the tips).

Figure 11.8. Preparing a message in pine is as easy as filling in the blanks.


To compose and send a message using pine:

1. 
pine

Type pine at the shell prompt to start pine, if it isn't already running.

2. 
c

Type c to compose a new message.

3.
Press to move through the message header fields. Fill in carbon copy recipients (cc:) and the Subject: line. See the sidebar called Our $.02 on the subject of Subjects for details about including Subject lines.

If you're sending an attachment, type in the UNIX file name (and path, if appropriate) on the Attchmnt: line. For example, type ~/myfile, which includes the full path name and the file name.

4. 
Hi, John,
When should we schedule that golf
game -- er, um -- business meeting?

In the message window, type in your message. Figure 11.8 shows our message, complete with the header information and the message body.

5.
When you're ready to send, press . pine will ask you to confirm that you really want to send the message. Type y (or press ) to send it, or n if you don't want to send it.

Tip

Rather than typing in someone's lengthy e-mail address (such as joeblow@acme fancompany.com), set up an alias, with which you'd be able to just type in Joe or whatever. To set up aliases, use the address book (A from the main menu) and follow the instructions given.


Tip

If you're at the shell prompt and want to send e-mail without bothering with the main pine interface, type pine followed by the e-mail address you want to send mail to (for example, pine bigputz@ray comm.com). If you want to send e-mail to multiple addresses, just separate them with commas but no spaces, as in pine [email protected],[email protected].


Our $.02 on the subject of Subjects

  • Always include a descriptive Subject line that succinctly summarizes the message's contents. Rather than saying "Here you go," say "Comments on the Baskins proposal."

  • Never leave the Subject line blank. Many people toss Subject-less messages, thinking that they might be spam or otherwise not important enough to read.

  • Never use ALL CAPS in the Subject line (or anywhere else, for that matter), as recipients may perceive this as being YELLED AT VERY LOUDLY.

  • Be aware of how spam filters work. Many ISPs use them to reduce the amount of spam (bulk messages, like junk mail, that are sent out to hundreds or thousands of people at one time) that goes through. Some filters are set to toss messages with Subject lines typed in ALL CAPS. Others toss ones with lots of !!!!!! in the Subject.


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