<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Mail and Internet Tools </TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="From VMS to Linux HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Graphics " HREF="graphics.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Advanced Topics " HREF="advanced-topics.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >From VMS to Linux HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="graphics.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="advanced-topics.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="MAIL-AND-INTERNET-TOOLS" ></A >7. Mail and Internet Tools</H1 ><P >Since Internet was born on UNIX machines, you find plenty of nice and easy-to-use applications under Linux. Here are just some:</P ><P > <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > <EM >Mail</EM >: use <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >elm</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >pine</TT > to handle your email; both programs have on-line help. For short messages, you could use <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >mail</TT >, as in <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >mail -s "hello mate" user@somewhere < msg.txt</TT >. You may like programs like <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >xmail</TT > or some such. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > <EM >Newsgroups</EM >: use <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >tin</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >slrn</TT >, both very intuitive and self-explanatory. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > <EM >ftp</EM >: apart from the usual character-based <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >ftp</TT >, ask your sysadm to install the full-screen <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >ncftp</TT > or a graphical ftp client like <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >xftp</TT >. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > <EM >WWW</EM >: the ubiquitous <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >netscape</TT >, or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >xmosaic</TT >, <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >chimera</TT >, and <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >arena</TT > are graphical web browsers; a character-based one is <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >lynx</TT >, quick and effective. </P ></LI ></UL > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="graphics.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="advanced-topics.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Graphics</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Advanced Topics</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >