From VMS to Linux HOWTO: Mail and Internet Tools

7. Mail and Internet Tools

Since Internet was born on UNIX machines, you find plenty of nice and easy-to-use applications under Linux. Here are just some:

Mail : use elm or pine to handle your email; both programs have on-line help. For short messages, you could use mail , as in mail -s "hello mate" user@somewhere < msg.txt . You may like programs like xmail or some such.
Newsgroups : use tin or slrn , both very intuitive and self-explanatory.
ftp : apart from the usual character-based ftp , ask your sysadm to install the full-screen ncftp or a graphical ftp client like xftp .
WWW : the ubiquitous netscape , or xmosaic , chimera , and arena are graphical web browsers; a character-based one is lynx , quick and effective.