| Pine (a Program for Internet News and Email) is a tool for reading, sending and managing electronic messages. Pine was designed by the Office of Computing and Communications at the University of Washington specifically with novice computer users in mind, but it can be tailored to accommodate the needs of "power users" as well. |
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Accessing Your Account 1. Turn on the monitor and computer and bring up Windows. 2. Find the WINQVT icon (it may be named TERMINAL) in the internet tools program group and open it. 3. The WinQVT/Net v3.9 window will appear. Click on the terminal icon. This will bring up the "Start Terminal Sessions" dialog box. 4. Under configurations, highlight SCC_Internet_Server_(osprey) by clicking on it. Click on "Ok" in the upper right-hand corner of the Start Terminal Sessions box. The login screen for the Osprey will appear. Logging In 1. At the login prompt type your user name in lower case letters. In general student user names are constructed from the first four letters of your last name, your first initial, and the last two digits of your social security number. For example, John Smith's user name might be "smitj32." Faculty user names are constructed from the first six letters of your last name and your first initial. Mary Johnston's user name would be "johnstm." Duplicate names are handled by adding another character. 2. At the password prompt type your password in lower case letters. Your password will not appear on the screen as you type. If you have never used your account before, you must obtain your password from your instructor or from the computing center on the Ammerman campus. You should change your password (see below) as soon as you log in for the first time. Changing Your Password |
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Initiating Pine 1. At the $ prompt type in pine and hit enter. 2. You will be presented with the Pine Mail Main Menu (Figure 1 below). Notice that the Folder List entry of the menu is highlighted. You may move the highlight by using the up and down arrows on your keyboard. There is a complete set of commands listed in the menu at the bottom of the screen (typing "O" gives the rest of the commands). Use these single keystroke commands to navigate the Pine program.
1. To compose a message choose "COMPOSE MESSAGE" from the main menu by typing "C" or by moving the highlight to the compose command using the up arrow key and hitting the enter key. This brings up the Compose Message screen.
2. You must enter the email address of the recipient of the message in the "To" field. Enter a short subject of the message in the "Subject" field. Move the cursor into the Message Text area using the down arrow or enter key. 3. Pine has a built-in editor which allows you to compose messages. The editor is designed to be very simple to use so that you can get started writing email right away. Messages are usually text only, about 80 columns wide. Lines automatically wrap as you type past the end of a line so you do not have to hit return. 4. The important commands appear at the bottom of the screen shown in Figure 2. Note that in the command menu the ^ character is used to indicate the control key (the lower-left-most key on your keyboard). You must hold down the control key while you press the letter for each command.
2. To send this message, type <Control>X. You are asked: Send message? Press "Y" for yes, and the message is sent. If you press "N" for no, the message is not sent, and you can continue to work on it. 3. A copy of every message that you send is saved to your sent-mail folder.
2. To reply to a message that you have selected at the Folder Index screen or that you are reading, press "R" for reply. You are asked if you want to include the original message in your reply. Also, if the the original message was sent to more than one person, you are asked if you want to reply to all recipients. Answer these questions carefully.
Add your reply to the Message Text area of the received message, and send the reply using the ^X command. |
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Attaching a File File attachments in Pine are most easily accomplished if you put the file to be attached in the root directory of your shell account. To do this you must use the file transfer program (FTP) included in the internet tools set that is installed on all connected computers. When you compose the message to which the file is to be attached, move the cursor to the "attachment" field and type ^t (ctrl t). This will display all the files in your root directory. Move the cursor to the file you wish to attach, and hit the enter key. The attachments file name with its complete path name should appear on the attachment line of your message. For example the path and filename might be:
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SCCC Listserv (scclist) A listserv is a specially administered mailing list on the internet. It works like this: When you mail a message to someone, you specify an email address. If you want to mail a message to more than one person, you can set up a special name, called an alias, that represents a group of people. On a larger scale, imagine an alias that contains the mail addresses of tens or even hundreds of users perhaps scattered all over the Internet. Any message sent to the alias is automatically sent to everyone in the group. The Suffolk County Community College listserv is called scclist. It is subscribed to by hundreds of faculty and staff. All new email users should join the scclist. To join you must send the following email message:
----- Message Text ----- Subscribe scclist ----- End Message -----
If, eventually, you wish to terminate your subscription to the list, send the same message with the word "subscribe" replaced by "unsubscribe."
Notice that the listserv address (scclist@sunysuffolk.edu) to which you address messages you want to send to all the members of the list, is different from the administrative address (listserv@sunysuffolk.edu) to which you send subscription requests and problem reports regarding the listserv. |
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