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[[Image:Imp.png|left|thumb|The IMP interface]]IMP (or equivalently, Webmail) is the way most students at Williams check their e-mail these days, since they have grown up with Web-based e-mail. IMP stands for Internet Mail Protocol. The software was written by a Williams student, way back in the day. Few people know this. This is probably why Williams webmail runs on IMP rather than something else. There are two equivalent ways to check your mail with a web browser: [http://imp.williams.edu http://imp.williams.edu] and [http://webmail.williams.edu http://webmail.williams.edu]. Most people have a strong preference for one or the other, though they are fundamentally the same.  This web-based interface works better than the command-line interface for attachments, but sometimes it mysteriously goes down, while [[Email#PINE|PINE]] remains up. Therefore, it is handy to know how to use both systems, so that you can both send attachments and check your e-mail even when others can't. When you log into IMP or Webmail, you have three options: Williams Mail - Standard, Faculty/Staff MessageStore, or Student MessageStore. The [[Class of 2007]] was the first class to have their mail stored on Student MessageStore, and the classes after 2007 have their mail stored there as well. It works better, for some reason, than the previous system.

[[Image:PINE.png|left|thumb|The PINE interface]][[PINE]] was the way most Williams students checked their e-mail until about 2003. It is a text-only system. When you use [[PINE]], you almost feel like a real computer geek. It's not very intuitive for people who have grown up using web-based e-mail, but it is very useful because it is often up when webmail is down, so there is a whole set of directions [[PINE|here]] on how to use it. Sometimes PINE is faster for checking your mail, since no graphics have to load.