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# 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.

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