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| ====== Email on Unix and Linux ====== | ====== Email on Unix and Linux ====== | ||
| - | The Unix system has many mail programs available, including pine and mutt; and, of course, you can use the usual graphical mail programs such as or Thunderbird or Mozilla Mail. | + | For most users we recommend using **Thunderbird**. More detailed instructions on how to configure this are included on our [[: |
| - | For newcomers to the Unix system, we recommend using **Thunderbird**. More detailed instructions on how to configure this are included on our general mail support pages. | + | For users accessing Unix via a terminal application (such as ssh), Pine is a popular mail program, and can be run simply by typing |
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| - | For users accessing Unix via a terminal application (such as ssh or telnet), Pine is a popular mail program, and can be run simply by typing pine. A good place to find information on Pine is the [[http:// | + | |
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| - | Another good mail program is [[http:// | + | |
| Some mail programs use a separate program for composing (editing) messages, and you may wish to choose your preferred editor rather than use the unfriendly system default (vi). This is covered in the page on [[: | Some mail programs use a separate program for composing (editing) messages, and you may wish to choose your preferred editor rather than use the unfriendly system default (vi). This is covered in the page on [[: | ||
| - | You might also want to see our introduction to email web page for more basic information. | + | You might also want to see our [[: |
| ===== Forwarding and Vacation ===== | ===== Forwarding and Vacation ===== | ||
| - | These features are both set up through the [[: | + | These features are both set up through the [[: |
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| + | ===== Secure Email ===== | ||
| - | ===== Secure Email: PGP ===== | + | For secure email using Thunderbird see [[http:// |
| - | We have both GnuPG and PGP v5.0 installed. GnuPG is probably a better choice for most purposes. There' | + | For users accessing via the terminal we have both GnuPG and PGP v5.0 installed. GnuPG is probably a better choice for most purposes. There' |