Electronic Mail

• Computer Systems Lab Documentation
  • 1 Frequently Asked Questions
    • 1.2 Electronic Mail
      • 1.2.1 How do I forward my mail?
      • 1.2.2 Reading mail from students.wisc.edu

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1.2.1 How do I forward my mail?

Your mail can be forwarded to an address outside CS by using a .forward file. Put the address to which your mail should be forwarded into a file called .forward in your public/ directory.

On UNIX systems:

UNIX users should call this file ~/public/.forward.
Note: For security reasons, the .forward file must not be writable by any other user. Use the command
chmod 644 .forward to set the Unix permisions.

On Windows NT systems:

NT users should put the file in U:\public\.forward.
Note: For security reasons, the .forward file must not be writable by any other user. Right-click and use the Properties menu to set the read-only attribute for the file, or use the command attrib +R .forward in a console window.

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1.2.2 Reading mail from students.wisc.edu

To read your email from students.wisc.edu using your Computer Sciences account, you will have to change the configuration of your mail program:

On UNIX systems:

pine:

Edit your .pinerc to set inbox-path={students.wisc.edu/pop3/user=username}INBOX

username is your students.wisc.edu user name

mh/exmh:

Edit your .mh_profile to add -host students.wisc.edu -user username

username is your students.wisc.edu user name

On Windows NT systems:

In Eudora, go to the Tools  | Options  | Personalities menu. In that menu, click NEW and add a personality with the configuration information for your students.wisc.edu email account.

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