Pine

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Experienced Unix users may wish to use the Pine e-mail program from the command line. This article describes how to set up Pine to send and receive e-mail for a POP mailbox that you've created.

You should only use Pine if you are already familiar with it. Pine is not an appropriate e-mail program for average users, and we do not provide support or assistance for it beyond this page.

Pine settings

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To get started, login to the Unix shell and run "pine".

Press "S" from the main menu, then "C". Change the first part of the settings to look like this (replacing "John Smith" with your name, of course):

personal-name = John Smith
user-domain   = example.com
smtp-server   = mail.tigertech.net:587/user=address@example.com
nntp-server   = <No Value Set>
inbox-path    = {mail.tigertech.net/user=address@example.com}INBOX

Leave the rest of the main settings at their defaults, then scroll further down the settings and change the customized-hdrs field to:

customized-hdrs = From: "John Smith" <address@example.com>

Press "E" then "Y" to exit the settings, then press "Q" and "Y" to exit Pine.

Start Pine again and you should be able to read incoming mail and send outgoing mail.

Seeing SSL/TLS certificate errors?

If you run Pine on your own computer (instead of logging in to our servers on the command line and running it there), you may see an error message that says "There was a failure validating the SSL/TLS certificate for the server mail.tigertech.net".

If this happens, it's because your computer is missing the necessary SSL "root certificate authority" certificates. The easiest way to avoid this is to add "/novalidate-cert" to the smtp-server and inbox-path of the Pine settings screen, like so:

personal-name = John Smith
user-domain   = example.com
smtp-server   = mail.tigertech.net:587/novalidate-cert/user=address@example.com
nntp-server   = <No Value Set>
inbox-path    = {mail.tigertech.net/novalidate-cert/user=address@example.com}INBOX

Doing that will avoid these errors.