Pine: the Basics

PINE is an email program used at Colby as an alternative to Eudora. The advantage to PINE is that it runs through Colby's UNIX server and allows users to access their mail from wheverever they happen to be, without having to have email installed locally. Also, because of the way it handles attachments, Pine is IMMUNE to viruses.

To get to PINE, you must log on to Colby0, which you do through any terminal emulation program. At Colby,faculty and staff Macintosh computers have the Telnet application for terminal emulation; Windows machines have TeraTerm Pro. Students can download Telnet for the Mac or DOS. There are a variety of other shareware telnet applications for Windows- just search on "telnet" in any search engine.

The following example uses Telnet on the Mac:

1.Launch the Telnet application. (If you are using a Colby owned (faculty or staff) computer, you have Telnet. If you can't find it: Mac- go to the File menu/Find, type in "telnet." Windows- go to Start menu/Find/type in "telnet.")

2.Mac-from the the File menu, choose "Open Connection." Windows-from the Connect menu choose "Remote System." The "Host/Session Name" box should be highlighted. Disregard any text that's already in there. If you are ON campus, enter "colby0"- that's a "zero", NOT the letter "O":

Note to Windows users: your window will look much the same as this, however it will say "Host name" instead of "Host/Session Name." Also, you will have boxes for "Port" and "TermType"- LEAVE these set to the defaults, which should be "Port:telnet" and "TermType: vt100." You will NOT see the "FTP Session", "Authenticate" and "Encrypt" options. Don't worry about it.

If you are OFF campus,you follow the instructions above, EXCEPT that you must enter the full Internet name of the Colby server:

Click "Connect." Continue with the instructions below.

Whichever application or platform you are using, once you have launched the terminal emulator program, you will see a logon screen where you must enter your Colby email username and password. Type in your username, hit Return or Enter, type in your password, hit Return or Enter again. :

Next, you will see the Host06 prompt. Type in "pine." Hit Return or Enter.



This will get you into Pine- for details on what to do after you get there, proceed to Page 2.