Sending e-mail with pine

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).

Figure 11.8. Preparing a message in pine is as easy as filling in the blanks.

To compose and send a message using pine:

1. 
pine
Type pine at the shell prompt to start pine, if it isn't already running.
2. 
c
Type c to compose a new message.
3.
Press to move through the message header fields. ...

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