Issues regarding secure connections and text-based clients can be found in the FAQ: How can I access my email from outside the department?
General Elm and pine (launched also by entering “mail” on the Unix command line) are two widely-used, terminal- and text-based mail clients. In our department, most users use pine, as it is considerably easier to navigate than elm. Elm and pine will read mail from your “inbox.” All of this mail will stay in /var/mail/, on the mail spool, in the space allocated to your username, unless deleted by marking the mail for deletion or moving the mail to other folders. Computer Support recommends regularly marking unwanted mail for deletion and moving mail you want to keep to folders you have set up (or the programs’ default folders). Elm and pine store saved mail (that is, mail moved to “folders”) in the user’s Unix home directory. Moving mail to a folder removes it from the mail spool and saves precious mail spool space. Elm saves “foldered” mail in a directory named “Mail” (capital “m”). Pine saves mail into a directory named “mail” (lower case “m”). Since the goal, in addition to conservin
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