authors:
Your shiny, new geosparkies.com account comes with an email account. alpine is a command-line email application to use it, as is mutt. Good old-fashioned mail works too, once configured properly; although it’s a little cryptic.
alpine is menu driven, and the menus are self-explanatory; it’s surprisingly easy to learn, and surprisingly powerful when you want to customize it.
From the command line (after logged in via SSH), type: pine and [return] Follow instructions and use the menus at the bottom and top. (Note: When you see the ^ in front of the letter it means you need to use CTRL, otherwise just use the letter.)