Pine is the recommended client software for use on the School of Crystallography's computer systems.

Other clients supporting IMAP could also be used (e.g. Netscape). However any program that requires direct access to the mail spool (e.g. Unix mail command) or to a POP server is unlikely to work as expected.

The School does not provide a POP service.

For more information see our Local pine pages

How to start Pine

1. Login to one of the department unix systems.
2. At the unix prompt type pine
3. pine will now ask for
   1. Your UNIX login id
      Press the Enter/Return key to use the default.
   2. Your UNIX password
4. You can now read and send mail
5. When you have finished use the quit command to exit pine
6. Don't forget to logout of the UNIX system.

Problems etc

Terminal type "iris-ansi-net", is unknown.

You have used a terminal window on a Silicon Graphics to telnet, rlogin to this system

• .Run pine on your local Silicon Graphics
• Set the terminal type to vt100
  e.g. setenv TERM vt100

Your terminal, of type "unknown", is lacking functions needed to run pine.
Terminal type (environment variable TERM) not set.

• If your terminal is a VT100 type then try
  setenv TERM vt100

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