Our next favorite thing to do with pine is to send new messages. Commonly, you’ll send messages after you’ve already started pine (Figure 11.8), but you can also start a new message directly from the shell prompt (see the tips).
1. | pine Type pine at the shell prompt to start pine, if it isn’t already running. |
2. | Press to compose a new message. |
3. | Press to move through the message header fields. Fill in carbon copy recipients (cc:) and the Subject: line. See the sidebar called Our Two Cents on the Subject of Subjects for details about including subject lines. If you’re sending an attachment, type in the Unix filename (and path, if appropriate) on the Attchmnt: line. For example, type ~/myfile, which includes the full path name and the filename. |
4. | Hi, John, when should we schedule
→ that golf game -- er, um --
→ business meeting?
In the message window, type in your message. Figure 11.8 shows our message, complete with the header information and the message body. |
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✓ Tips
Rather than type in someone’s lengthy email address (such as [email protected]), set up an alias— a shortened name that replaces the long-winded address. Yeah, you’d be able to just type in Joe or whatever, and Unix will know which long-winded address goes with that name. To set up aliases, use the address book (press from the main menu) and follow the instructions given.
If you’re at the shell prompt and want to send email without bothering with the main pine interface, type pine followed by the email address you want to send mail to (for example, pine [email protected]). If you want to send email to multiple addresses, just separate them with commas or spaces, as in pine [email protected], [email protected].
Our Two Cents on the Subject of Subjects
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