Pine

Pine stands for "Program for Internet News and Email" and was developed at the University of Washington in 1989, as a "user-friendly character-based mail client for Unix". Both Unix and PC Pine intended to be easy-to-use programs, which would send, receive and file electronic mail (email) and I-news messages which can be subscribed with one click.

PC Pine is composed of Pine and the Pine Composer (Pico), some Dynamically Linked Libraries (DLL), and uses MS-Windows.

The Unix is made up of core program, Pico and Pine Lister Of Things (Pilot).

PC-Pine has its origin in the Unix Pine that the developers ported to Microsoft's platforms. It can run on all versions of Microsoft Windows and on DOS.

   Outlook Express

Microsoft Outlook Express is the full standard based email client that is integrated into Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4. Outlook Express is easy to set up and to use. It also provides the client with secure, personalised and a whole set of features that make the client able to send, receive and read mails easily. Outlook Express has continually improved since introducing three-pane view, HTML mail, stationery, and the facility to receive mail from multiple accounts in a single inbox.

When the user uses Pine or another email program, only the way the client is used for sending and reading emails changes. The email address remains the same.