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Instead of using pine to attempt to read your email, use the mail command.

See the man page on mail for more info. If you go to use it on that site, it should come up with this:

grex.cyberspace.org% mail

Hi -- Welcome to the mail program!

Some mail tips:

+ This is an antique mail program. For a much nicer one, try pine instead.
If you do not know which mail program to use, start with pine.

+ For a list of mail commands, type help at the & prompt. For more
commands, type tilde-questionmark when you are writing a message.

+ Cc: means carbon copies. If you do not want to send copies of your
message to other people, press Enter when you see a Cc: prompt.

+ When you are done reading your incoming messages, please delete them.
For example, to delete message 5 type:
d 5

+ When you are done, type q to exit.

+ You can edit your .mailrc file to remove these overly helpful messages.

Mail version 5.5 6/1/90. Type ? for help.
"/var/spool/mail/t/g/username": 2 messages 1 new
1 someone@yahoo.c Tue Jul 27 12:09 22/796 "test email"
>N 2 someone@yahoo.c Thu Jul 29 08:30 26/889 "Re: test"
 
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incm

INCM(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   INCM(1)

NAME

       incm - Incorporating new mails for Mew

SYNOPSIS

       incm [options]

DESCRIPTION

       The incm utility incoporates new mails from the mbox or the maildir to Mew's inbox folder.

       The options are as follows:

       -a      Retrieve all mails from maildir/{cur,new} for maildir.

       -b      Backup mails.  mbox: No truncate mbox file.  maildir: To maildir/cur directory.

       -c      Use the Content-Length: field, instead of the "From " line, as a mail separator for mbox.

       -d path Path to mbox/maildir.  If path is a file, mbox is assumed. If path is a directory, maildir is assumed.

       -m path The same as the -d option.

       -s      Read one mail from stdin instead of mbox/maildir.

       -i inboxdir
	       A path to the inbox directory.

       -h      Display this help message.

       -v      Display the version.

   mbox
       For  mbox, the mail separator is "From " in the beginning of lines.  The incm utility does not convert ">From " to "From " in the beginning
       of lines in the body.  On Solaris, Content-Length: should be used with the -c option to tell the end of mail.

       To lock mbox, both a lock file("user.lock") and flock() (or lockf(), or open(LOCK_EX) are used.

   maildir
       For maildir, no lock and no separator are necessary.

       Consider the following situation:
	       cur/{1,2}
	       new/{3,4}

       Executing incm without the options results in:
	       cur/{1,2}
	       new/{}
	       to inbox: {3,4}

       Executing incm with the -a option results in:
	       cur/{}
	       new/{}
	       to inbox: {1,2,3,4}

       Executing incm with the -b option results in:
	       cur/{1,2,3,4}
	       new/{}
	       to inbox: {3,4}

       Executing incm with the -a option and the -b otpion results in:
	       cur/{1,2,3,4}
	       new/{}
	       to inbox: {1,2,3,4}
       So, if both options are specified, messages are retrieved multiple times.

								 December 25, 2001							   INCM(1)