Pine (Program for Internet News and Email)

Different Ways to Start Pine

In addition to starting up Pine by simply typing pine, there are other ways to start up Pine, by specifying optional arguments. Here is the form of the Pine command with optional arguments.

pine [-hi] [-f foldername]
pine 

The first form is used for reading. Any of those options shown can be given individually or all together. The flags have these meanings for the first form:

-f

Starts Pine by reading a specified folder instead of the in box.

-h

Prints a help screen, with a list of all the optional arguments.

-i

Opens Pine and starts with the Folder Index of INBOX instead of the Main Menu.

% pine sbearcat

This command will start Pine up in send-only mode, with the recipient being set to "sbearcat", where "sbearcat" can be a username or an alias that you've preset in the Address Book. After entering the command, Pine will go into the Compose Message screen with the To: field set already.