How to Use the Pine Mail Program

The Pine Mail program is an easy-to-use electronic mail (e-mail) program, which runs on the University of Delaware's (UD) central e-mail server called "mail.udel.edu." (You may also see this server referred to as "copland.udel.edu" in other materials.)

Pine Mail is a menu-driven program--a list of options you can use is displayed on the screen. To select an option, you press the indicated key or key combination.

Important Note
The Pine Mail program runs on many platforms (UNIX, Windows, etc.). For use at UD, you will find it easiest to run it on the central UNIX system named "mail.udel.edu" (or "copland.udel.edu"). There is no charge to do so.

Table of Contents

How to use the Pine Mail Program

1. How to Start the Pine Mail Program
2. How to Access Online Pine Mail Help
3. How to Compose Pine Mail Messages
4. How to Send Pine Mail Messages
5. How to Read Pine Mail Messages
6. How to Save Pine Mail Messages to a Folder
7. How to Delete Pine Mail Messages
8. How to Read Saved Pine Mail Messages
9. How to Create a Signature File for Your Outgoing Pine Mail Messages
10. How to Print Pine Mail Messages
11. How to Quit the Pine Mail Program

Common Questions

This section contains answers to common questions about the Pine Mail program.

1. My INBOX is too large. How do I decrease its size?
2. I'm over disk quota. How do I fix the problem?
3. How do I attach a word-processed file to a Pine message?
4. I've received a word-processed file as an attachment in a Pine message. How do I view it with my word-processing program?
5. The file that's attached to my message is encoded--What do I do?
6. How do I forward a message to another correspondent?
7. How do I send a message to a correspondent not at UD?
8. How do I forward messages from my UDelNet account to my Internet Service Provider's (ISP's) account?
9. My Pine Mail Inbox folder is locked or in read-only format. What should I do?
10. Some of my e-mail is missing from my INBOX. How can I locate it?

Helpful Resources

If you cannot find help through the Pine Mail program's online help, try one of these other resources, in particular the University of Washington's Pine Information Center.

• University of Washington's Pine Information Center
• Usenet newsgroup "comp.mail.pine"
• Connect to the following search pages:
• Search UD
• Search the Internet

Still Need Help?

If you need help, use the online help provided by the Pine Mail program.

If you need more help than that provided by the online information, you can fill in an online Help Center Request Form or call the Help Center at 302-831-6000.

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