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Unix Supported Mail Clients. Like text editors, UNIX provides an array of programs to check email. Two discussed in your Unix text are mail and pine. CS also provides mutt and elm (the latter being just an alias for a specific configuration of mutt). These are command-line mail clients, often favored by system people and programmers due to their simple text interface and speed advantage over web-based systems. These are also the systems that are used by your submission and other processes supporting assignments in your course. Check mail using one of the programs by simply typing the name as a command. There is usually a first-time setup sequence required that is self-explanatory (answer in the affirnative to any questions asked). Recall that the CS compute servers linprog amd program do not support email. Email is available only on the "general use" servers such as shell. (Be sure to check out the hardware and software available to you at the system group web page.) Webmail
Check your FSU email at http://webmail.fsu.edu. Forwarding If you prefer to deal with email somewhere else, for example at your FSU email account, you can forward your CS email very simply: just create a text file in your Unix home directory. The file should be named ".forward" and contain the address to which you want mail forwarded. If you want to forward to more than one place, put all the addresses in .forward, one per line. For example, the following would forward to "yourfsuid@fsu.edu" and keep a copy at the CS email (here your CS username is "yourCSusername" and your FSU username is "yourfsuid"): # file: ~/.forward yourfsuid@fsu.edu (replace yourfsuid with your real FSU ID!!!!) yourCSusername@mail2.cs.fsu.edu (replace yourCSusername with your real CS username!!!) You can also forward your FSU email to an external system or to your CS email. (Don't create a forwarding loop, of course.) |