Sending Mail with Pine

12.B.2 Reading a Message in Pine 12. E-Mail 12.B Using Pine

§ 12.B.1: Sending Mail with Pine

Let's tell pine we want to compose a letter:

> C

You should now get a new screen with your cursor next to the highlighted word To. Enter the email address of the person you are writing to. We suggest you (sit right down and) write yourself a letter:

To: userid@ucs.orst.edu

After entering the recipient's address with [return], the highlighted bar should move down to the carbon copy line Cc. This is used for secondary recipients of your letter, and may include a list of names. (You may also use a list as primary recipients.) Why not cc yourself in, press [return], and move on.

The line Attchmnt should now be highlighted. This allows you to send files to other people without physically pasting those files into your letter. This is the useful for sending files with a note attached. We'll attach area.f:

Attchmnt: area.f

The next highlighted line should be Subject. Make it descriptive since the recipient's mailer often indicates only the sender and the subject of the mail; a bad subject may cause your letter to be "junked":

Subject: mail example

Now Message Text is highlighted. This is where you place your message. Type "Hello, testing" (or anything you want).

When you are done with your message, look at the bottom of the screen for the Send option. The highlighted characters immediately to the left of this are "control x". Enter these by pressing the [ctrl] key and the x key simultaneously.

You are now prompted at the bottom of the screen to Send Message?.