If you’d like to use pine on a Ubuntu or Debian server, chances are your current email system isn’t using the old /var/mail/user way of doing things. 🙂
apt-get install alpine
ln -s /usr/bin/alpine /usr/bin/pine
Run pine to generate a ~/.pinerc file, and change the following lines
user-domain=your-domain.com
inbox-path={your-domain.com:143}INBOX
smtp-server=your-domain.com/novalidate-cert/user=$USER
If you don’t use authenticated SMTP, just comment out smtp-server
You should probably copy this file to everyone’s home directory. Make sure to update permissions!
cd /home
for x in *; do
mv /home/$x/.pinerc /home/$x/.pinerc.bak
cp /etc/skel/.pinerc /home/$x/
chown $x /home/$x/.pinerc
done