INBOX

sent-mail

saved-messages

You can save a particular message that you wish to keep by hitting 's' while in the mail index or while reading the message. If you don't specify a folder name, the message will be saved in the folder 'saved-messages'. You can create as many folders as you want, to keep track of different subjects, for example.

As soon as you save a message, you remove it from the INBOX (the mail spool). While the mail spool is stored somewhere else on the server along with everybody else's mail spool, all the other folders that PINE lists live in your Unix home directory under the directory mail/. Whatever is in your home directory is counted against your own disk quota (which can be increased if you run out of space). Stuff in the mail spool, however, consumes a somewhat more critical resource that is not available in the same abundance as space in your home directory. Therefore, if you want to save long email messages (especially if they contain attachments), you should always save them in one of your folders and not keep them in your mail spool.

In TWIG, if you go to Mail --> Folder Management, you can 'subscribe' to the same folders that PINE lists. If you subscribe to a folder (that you created in PINE), you can start using it in TWIG as well. When you read a message, you have the option to "Move" it into another (subscribed) folder. The effect is the same as in PINE; it is removed from the INBOX (mail spool) and is stored in your Unix home directory. Of course, you can access a message moved into a folder in TWIG when you later use PINE.

Is PINE still available from outside the Department?
Pine is available as long as you can log into the Unix server. From inside the Department, you can use TELNET or SSH to login, from outside the Department you can only use SSH for security reasons (everything is encrypted). So the answer is, yes. If you have SSH available where you are, then you can login with SSH and then use PINE. If you don't have SSH available, you can go to our web pages and use a Java applet called "SSH to chemistry Unix server", and again you can use PINE on chemistry (the SSH Java applet has some drawbacks compare to an SSH installation on a PC or Mac, but for the purpose of using PINE they are equivalent).

You can also find out about the various options of reading email outside the department. Consult the SSH Primer for more information on SSH.