What is my e-mail address?
What is the name of the POP || IMAP || SMTP server?
What utilities can I use in the Linux Lab to read my e-mail?
How can I send my e-mail?
How can I forward e-mail from CS account to another account?
What is my e-mail address?
Your e-mail address with CS department`s server is: user00@cs.newpaltz.edu
where user00 is your user name at SUNY New Paltz (first 6 letters of your last name followed by the last 2 digits of your SS#).
What is the name of the POP || IMAP || SMTP server?
The server is mail.cs.newpaltz.edu.
What utilities can I use in the Linux Lab to read my e-mail?
There are several mail utilities available on our Linux machines.
- One of the most popular ones is pine. To start pine at the command line type:
pine
In the MAIN MENU you will be prompted for your password (it should be the same as when you login to Linux).
In general, it is very easy to use pine utility. At the bottom of the MAIN MENU you will see some shortcuts for commands and their meaning.
The MAIN MENU consists of 7 options. You can either use 'up' and 'down' arrows to move among options, or type the corresponding shortcut letter.
To move among windows use '<' to go back, and '>' to go foward.
Go to the FOLDER LIST to check your new messages in INBOX, view sent messages or view any additional folders you created. - mutt is a text based mail utility for Unix and Linux.
mutt is not as pretty as the graphical e-mail clients most people are used to.
However, once you are familiar with it, it is much faster and more flexible.
In addition, it helps you get used to the text-based nature of the UNIX environment, which is what you'll be using in most of the Computer Science courses.
To start mutt, at the command line type:mutt
For more information on how to use and configure mutt visit the following links
Learning mutt
Beginner's Guide to 'mutt'
Wanna know more...? - Evolution is a graphical mail application that comes with Gnome. It is available in the Linux Lab. When you open this application for the first time you will have to do some configuration. Specify mail.cs.newpaltz.edu as your receive and send host name. The protocol should be IMAP.
If you are familiar with and are used to Microsoft Outlook mail utility, you will find evolution somewhat similar to it. - Mozilla Thunderbird is another graphical mail application. It is similar to Evolution, and has many security and organization tools. It also has very effective spam filtering. Its configuration process is similar to Evolution.
How can I send my e-mail?
All of the above mail utilites can be used to receive and send e-mail.
How do I forward e-mail from CS account to another account?
It is possible to redirect all the mail that is sent to your user00@cs.newpaltz.edu account to some other account. To do this you need to edit you .forward script. In your home directory at the command line type:
ls -a
to list all the files and directories.
The files that begin with a '.' are hidden files. See if there is already a .forward file in your home directory. If not, you will have to create one yourself.
In this .forward file you can put e-mail addresses that you want your mail to be redirected to.
For example, if you want to check all the mail using your newpaltz account with NP mail, your would type user00@newpaltz.edu.
Note: each address that you decide to include in the .forward file must start at the new line in the script.