Pine is a free and easy to use program for internet news and 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, and an ever-growing number of configuration and personal-preference options.
Pine is available for Unix as well as for personal computers running a Microsoft operating system (PC-Pine).
Here are some key features of "Pine":
· 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.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Additions include:
· Even though Pine does not properly support the UTF-8 character
· set, the Allow-Version3-LDAP feature will cause Pine to go ahead
· and try to talk to an LDAP server which is a version 3 server. You
· will find this feature in the Setup/Directory screen. It is
· separately settable for each server you configure.
Bugs that have been addressed in this release include:
· Crash with malformed mailbox name that allows an authorized user
· to run commands from the shell
· When a PC-Pine network read, or a non-SSL Unix Pine network read
· took longer than Tcp-Read-Warning-Timeout (default 15 seconds)
· Pine would always time out instead of allowing the user to
· continue
· Bug when setting Reply-Indent-String to the Empty Value. Quote
· showed up as a double quote instead of as nothing.
· Crash when Pine attempts to open a remote (IMAP, POP3, NNTP)
· mailbox specification that has an unterminated quoted string in
· the network part of the name
· Sorting by Score would not work after changing...
