Frequently asked questions about mail
- Getting there
- Type pine to get into the main menu. Once
there you should have a list of options at the bottom of your screen.
The ? will give you a whole lot of information about pine.
Simply typing o will display more options.
- Reading mail
- To check your "INBOX", either press i or press return
on that option. If there are any messages listed at the top of
your screen,
press return to view the selected message. If it is
longer than one screenful, keep pressing the down arrow or ctrl+v to
read the message.
When you finnish reading the message, pressing n will get
you to the next message until you have read all of your mail. At
any time you may press i to return to the message index, or
m to return to the main menu. All these options are at the
bottom of the window. If you don't see the option you want, just press
o for more options.
- Sending mail
- To send mail you must know the email address of the person you
are trying to contact. It probably looks similar to
username@college.edu if they are at a school or
username@business.com if they are at a business.
Once you are in pine, hit c to indicate you would like to
compose a new message.
You will then need to fill out the necessary fields of the message.
To : jschmoe@cs.hmc.edu
Cc : carbon_copy_to_whoever_you_want@somewhere.com
Attachmnt: use the ctrl+j command
Subject : short indication of subject
----- Message Text -----
This is where you write.
To send your message press ctrl+x and confirm with y
Pressing ctrl+c at any time will cancel your message. It gets
saved to ~/dead.letter if you want to recover it later.
- check if you have a .forward file:
- % ls ~/.forward
- if you don't, create one, and add the line
- Joe_Schmoe@hmc.edu
- if you want a local copy also (i.e. you get one there and here), use
- Joe_Schmoe@hmc.edu, \jschmoe
- The file should be writable only by you. To enforce this, use the command:
- chmod og-w ~/.forward
There is a program called vacation that will take your
messages for you and reply with vacation.msg. For more information,
read the man page:
% man vacation
For remote access to your mail, please see our instructions for setting up IMAP.
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