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Guide to Using ROHANEmail is private, but system mailboxes share a disk. Be careful not to exceed your quota for email. If your quota for /var/mail is exceeded, any new email will be bounced back to the sender. Please help by unsubscribing from mail lists and listservs when you plan on not reading your email for awhile. Type quota -v to see your quota usage. Two supported mailers on ROHAN are pine and elm. Elm and pine are interactive screen-oriented system with menus and help screens. ROHAN supports POP3 access for email, used by programs such as Eudora and Netscape. For further description on pine, or elm, type
or view the web page at URL - http://rohan.sdsu.edu/help/pine.html or http://www.washington.edu/pine/user-guide/index.html. After a week, or if your mailbox exceeds the limit, new email is rejected and the login warning is "Block limit reached on /var/mail". The sender will get the following message and the email returned: ----- The following
addresses had delivery problems ----- ----- Transcript
of session follows ----- This sample session may be used as an introduction to Email. UNIX is case sensitive and most UNIX systems require that commands be entered as lower case. Responses that are typed on your terminal keyboard are in bold type. Explanatory comments are enclosed in square brackets "[ ]".
8.1 AddressesAn Email address is a designation of your computer user name, system name, site name, and site type that indicates where mail should go to or is coming from. Typically, it has the format wilson@rohan.sdsu.edu where wilson is the user name, rohan is the host name, sdsu is the site name, and edu is the site type (educational). Other common site types are GOV (government), COM (commercial), and MIL (military). The address may have an additional country indicator i.e wilson@rain.com.uk, where uk indicates the United Kingdom.8.1.1 Sending Email to Internet UsersIn order to send Email to users located on a computer other than the one you are currently logged onto and using Internet you may use the following command:
To send mail from ROHAN to someone on AZNET (i.e. jones), enter the following:
Return to 8.1 Addresses 8.1.2 Forwarding EmailUNIX implements a general main routing facility, sendmail, that provides automatic routing and forwarding of Email. When a user receives Email, sendmail checks for the existence of a .forward file in their home directory. If it exists, the message is forwarded to the list of user(s) in that file.Create a .forward file containing new Email addresses with the following format on one line each. Example:
Example steps: Type --
where the cat > command sends keyboard input to the .forward file and jones@mail and smith@y1.sdsc.edu are the addresses where the forwarded mail would be sent. An alternative method of using the forward function without creating a files is as follows: Type --
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Addresses 8.2 Elm8.2.1 Sending Email via ElmAfter logging onto the computer you will see a rohan% (the UNIX operating system prompt). At the rohan% prompt the user types elm, to start the Elm program, followed by the recipient's email address.rohan% elm hsmith@rohan.sdsu.edu
To: hsmith@rohan.sdsu.edu Invoking editor ... Elm invokes an editor at this time, allowing you to compose your mail message. Elm uses the editor defined in your elm options. The default editor is vi. When you exit from vi, elm will ask you what to do and suggest s to send the message:
e)dit message, edit h)eaders, s)end it, or f)orget it. Elm can be configured to use the pico editor. Use the o(options) command to get the Elm Options Editor and select E (editor). Then type pico -t for the editor and > to save the changes. Return to 8.2 Elm 8.2.2 Reading Email via ElmWhen logging onto a UNIX system you may receive the message: "You have new mail". If you want to read your mail, enter elm alone at the rohan% prompt.
Mailbox is `/usr/spool/mail/hsmith' with 2 messages [ELM 2.4 PL21]
N 1 Jan 13 Mail Delivery Subs (28) Returned mail: User unknown
d)elete or u)ndelete mail, m)ail a message, r)eply or f)orward mail, q)uit To read a message, press <return>. j = move down, k = move up, ? = help Command: To read a specific message, select the message by moving down to it with the j key or type the message number. Press the RETURN key to read the current message (the one in reverse video). If you have more than one message, pressing the RETURN key at the end of the message will read the next message. When exiting from elm, read messages are not removed from your mailbox unless deleted or elm is allowed to move them to your received folder. Your system mailbox is not backed up. Move mail messages into your account if you want them backed up. When you quit from elm, you are asked:
Command: Quit Move read messages to "received" folder? (y/n) Answering y moves your mail into the received folder in your account. Return to 8.2
Elm 8.3 PineA Pine tutorial is available on-line at URL - http://www.washington.edu/pine/tutorial.4/index.htmlReturn to 8.0 Email 8.4 Distribution Lists for Mail and ElmBoth mail and elm have the capability of using alias lists. An alias list is used to easily send mail to a set of users via a .mailrc file. For example, if this line is in your .mailrc file:
Then entering: or would have the same effect. Return to 8.0 Email 8.5 Help for Pine and ElmThe online manuals are available at the rohan% prompt by entering the following commands:
rohan1% man elm elm
manuals are also available as web pages.
The help documents are located in the directory /usr/local/lib/help Return to 8.0 Email 8.6 Common Email Error MessagesIf users receive the message "user unknown" when attempting to send you Email, your .forward file may have an error. You must either remove (rm .forward) or fix your .forward file to eliminate the message.If you are using ELM and received the message
OR If you are using PINE and received the message:
Your mail folder has been corrupted. Fix your folder after viewing/saving any mail by removing the contents. To view the contents of a corrupted mail folder, type:
replace username with your username To remove the contents of the corrupted mail folder, type:
replace username with your username Return to 8.0
Email 8.7 WebmailROHAN users can access their email via a web browser and the SquirrelMail program on ROHAN. Enter http://rohan.sdsu.edu/webmail in your browser's location bar, then enter your username and password in the displayed window prompts and click on Login. A window will be displayed with clickable commands and your incoming messages. Clickable commands will allow you to Compose new email, open your messages and Reply, Forward, Delete, etc. Many other options are available as well. A Help button is available for further assistance. Return to 8.0
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The Internet is a global network of networks that is comprised of thousands of computer systems linked together with data communications hardware and software. Information, in text, graphics, and sound, is made available and in many cases, there is no charge for accessing it. Following are several programs on ROHAN available for going out on the Internet and finding these information sources. 9.1 TELNETTELNET is used to establish a terminal login with a remote system that is connected to the Internet and is running TELNET software. Some systems offer information services via TELNET connections. See handout #0300 TELNET Guide for detailed information.Return to 9.0 Internet 9.2 LynxLynx, an Internet navigational tool, makes information seeking and gathering on the Internet intuitive, convenient, and very easy. Type lynx to invoke it; help is built into Lynx.Return to 9.0 Internet 9.3 NetscapeNetscape, a powerful Internet graphical navigational tool, makes information seeking and gathering on the Internet intuitive, convenient, and very easy. After logging into ROHAN from an X-capable terminal, type netscape to invoke it; help is built into Netscape.If you use Netscape, be sure to set the Disk Cache to 0 kilobytes under the Options/Preferences/Cache and Network menus. Without doing this, Netscape may crash on some URLs and/or will use up your disk quota. If enabled, a Netscape disk cache file can fill all available disk quota in one session. If this occurs, delete the .netscape/cache file by entering:
Then disable cache under Netscape's Option/Preferences menu to avoid this from reoccurring. Return to 9.0
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last modified: August 20, 2003 SDSU Faculty and Students may send questions about software on ROHAN or ROHAN UNIX problems to problems@rohan.sdsu.edu
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