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pine-4.05: description + notes

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This is the pine email program from the University of Washington.

It includes the pico editor and the pilot simple file browser.

Pine and Pico are trademarks of the University of Washington. Full licence details are included in the distribution in:

  /usr/freeware/doc/pine-4.05

Here's an excerpt from the man page:

    Pine is a screen-oriented message-handling tool.  In its
    default configuration, Pine offers an intentionally limited
    set of functions geared toward the novice user, but it also
    has a growing list of optional "power-user" and personal-
    preference features.  pinef is a variant of Pine that uses
    function keys rather than mnemonic single-letter commands.
    Pine's basic feature set includes:

         View, Save, Export, Delete, Print, Reply and Forward
         messages.

         Compose messages in a simple editor (Pico) with word-
         wrap and a spelling checker.  Messages may be postponed
         for later completion.

         Full-screen selection and management of message
         folders.

         Address book to keep a list of long or frequently-used
         addresses.  Personal distribution lists may be defined.
         Addresses may be taken into the address book from
         incoming mail without retyping them.

         New mail checking and notification occurs automatically
         every 2.5 minutes and after certain commands, e.g.
         refresh-screen (Ctrl-L).

         On-line, context-sensitive help screens.

    Pine supports MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions),
    an Internet Standard for representing multipart and
    multimedia data in email.

    Pine uses the c-client messaging API to access local and
    remote mail folders. This library provides a variety of
    low-level message-handling functions, including drivers for
    a variety of different mail file formats, as well as
    routines to access remote mail and news servers, using IMAP
    (Internet Message Access Protocol) and NNTP (Network News
    Transport Protocol).  Outgoing mail is usually handed-off to
    the Unix sendmail, program but it can optionally be posted
    directly via SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol).

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