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<p>you would be very hard pressed to find a current student who knows what Pine is. Its also extremely outdated. </p>
<p>They’ve recently upgraded cubmail and its faster and more reliable now. Its very useful when you aren’t on your own computer and need to check your email.</p>
<p>I suggest using apple’s mail program if you have a mac or outlook if you have a PC. Setup for both programs can be found here: [Email</a> Software Titles](<a href=“http://www.columbia.edu/acis/software/email.html]Email”>http://www.columbia.edu/acis/software/email.html). With cubmail’s IMAP interface you can control your mail as if you were using cubmail but you’d have a much nicer preference. Also for those of you out there with iphones, you can set you the iphone’s mail program to receive mail from cubmail. </p>
<p>As for forwarding…I have my cubmail forwarded to a gmail account just to have an archive of every email i ever received…in case i delete something and want to retrieve it. I use outlook, apple mail or cubmail however and only use the gmail account when cubmail is down or when i need to find an email i deleted. </p>
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<p>you can get ur regular email forwarded and you can get an alumni account which is just a gmail account but instead of @gmail.com its @???.columbia.edu …i dont remember what the first part is.</p>