Email Applications
Several text-based email applications are available for FreeBSD. Once again, these applications have some advantages over graphical interface email programs, including the fact that they require very few resources because they do not need a window system, and they can be run remotely from any terminal emulation program that has some kind of access to the FreeBSD system.
The Pine email client was originally written by the University of Washington as an easy to use email program for new users. Pine is a recursive acronym that stands for Pine Is Not Elm—Elm being an older mail client that was one of the first menu driven email clients for UNIX, but was not a shining example of user friendliness. Pine remains one of the easiest ...
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