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USING TELNET
Home Logging On Composing a Message Checking Mail Storing Addresses Creating a Signature Changing Your Password Common Telnet Terms

LOGGING ON
1. FOR COMPUTERS #1-12: Open the Microsoft TCP/IP-32 group and double-click the Telnet icon

Choose the Connect menu and from the Host Name drop-down list, click on your mail server.

2. FOR COMPUTERS #13-30; Open the Telnet icon from the Internet group. The Connect To Site dialog box automatically appears on computers. Choose your mail server from the list and click OK. 3.Now you are at the login: prompt. Type in your user name and press <ENTER>. When prompted, type your password and press <ENTER>. 4.A message will come up to tell you if you have new mail. Type pine to enter into the Pine E-Mail Main Menu.

COMPOSING A MESSAGE
(See Figure 1) 1.Go into Compose Message by highlighting it using the arrow keys and hitting <ENTER> or by typing the letter C.

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2. Enter the e-mail address of the recipient in the TO: field. This must be a valid address which is reachable from your site or you will receive an error after sending the message. 3.If you wish you can give a brief description of the message by typing it in the SUBJECT: field. 4. In the Message Text area type in the actual message that you intend to send. 5. Once the message is complete you send it by pressing <Ctrl X > . You are then prompted to confirm the sending of the message. To cancel the message at anytime press <Ctrl + C>. Figure 1:

CHECKING YOUR MAIL

1.Go into the Folder List by highlighting it using the arrow keys on the keyboard and hitting <ENTER> or typing the letter L .

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2.Press <ENTER> on the INBOX mail group to see any new mail or <ENTER> on any other folder available to see older mail. 3.Now you will see a list of messages in this particular folder. Highlight the message you wish to view and hit <ENTER> to view the message itself.

STORING ADDRESSES
The Address Book is used to store your personal addresses. To add a new address: 1.Highlight Address Book on the Main Menu and hit <ENTER> or type the letter A. 2.Choose A for AddNew and then fill in the name of the person, any comments you wish to add and then their e-mail address. 3.To save your entry press <CTRL X>, and confirm by entering Y for yes To delete an address: 1.Highlight the address you wish to delete and then enter D for Delete and then Y to confirm yes. To view your addresses select the Address Book from the Main Menu. To compose a message using an address in your address book simply highlight the address you wish to use and then enter <C>. The compose message screen will then appear with the address you selected.

CREATING A SIGNATURE
A signature is an attached message that you create and it is sent out with every message you compose. To create a signature: 1.Open Setup from the Main Menu, and then enter S for Signature. 2.Next enter the signature that you would like to accompany each message. Your signature could include your name, e-mail address, URL address if you have a Homepage, a comment, or some design that you have created. 3.Once you have finished creating your signature, exit by entering <CTRL X> and then enter Y for Yes. 4.To activate your signature file you must go into Setup and then enter C for Config. Scroll down through the list of features using the down arrow until you reach Signature At Bottom. Enter X to activate it and then exit Config by entering E and then confirm by entering Y for Yes.

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CHANGING YOUR PASSWORD

If you are having trouble remembering your password it is very simple to create your own. (Your new password must have at least 6 characters and passwords may not be words.) To create a new password: 1.Select Setup, and then N for New Password. 2.Type in your current password and hit <ENTER>. 3.Type in your new password, hit <ENTER>, and then verify your new password by entering it again. 4.Wait a few seconds and you will be automatically returned to the Main Menu.

EXPUNGE WITHOUT CONFIRM

Expunge Without Confirm enables you to by-pass the message of "Expunge the deleted message from Inbox?" when you quit pine. By using expunge without confirm your read mail is automatically expunged to your read-mail folder.
To setup Expunge without Confirm:

1.Select Setup from the Main Menu, and then type in the letter C to access Config. 2.Then use the down arrow to scroll through until you reach expunge without confirm. Then type in X to select it. 3.To exit, type in E and then Y for yes to save your changes.

Heres a list of common terms you will find while using Telnet:
"F"- Normally, just give name/e-mail address of new recipient. Pine will include text and attachments. Use the space above the forwarded text to add your own comments. "R"- Use this function to Reply to a message that you have received. If it was a message that was sent to others besides yourself, then it will ask if you want to reply to all recipients, if you want the message to go to everyone listed in the message, say yes; otherwise, say no, and it will be sent to the original sender only.

Forward : Reply :

Save & Export: Two tools to keep a copy of the message. Save : to save the message into your saved-messages folder

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: save the message as a separate file to be retrieved and edited in a word processing package, such as Word or WordPerfect.
Pine shows list of attachments on a message, choose one you can either save or view. Many attachments need an external program to see them and thus, should be saved as a file to be brought up in another program.

Export

View Attachments :

jump to the beginning of the message and use ctrl-v to jump to the end of your message.

Where is : Type in a word and Pine will try to find the word in the message that you are reading. Use Ctrl-y to Next New (Tab) : Advances to the next "interesting" message in your folder.

Print Message : "Y" - to print the message to the computers default desktop printer, which is usually the LaserJet 4/4M at the back of the lab.
It is crucial to know the exact name of the file that you wish to send, and for that file to be in your account. In the Attachment line of the message header, type the exact name of the file you wish to send, and the system will change the file name to the file location from your folders, it just takes a little time.

Attach a file :

name, the e-mail login name, the last time they logged in, the location from where they logged in, and if they have new mail. To perform this function, you need to be at your server (ganymede, Plato, etc.) prompt. For example :

Finger : Used to find a friend who has an e-mail account. The finger gives information about the real

ganymede$ finger joesmith@ganymede.cs.mun.ca

If you know your friends login name, or

ganymede$ finger smith@ganymede.cs.mun.ca

If you dont. This will list all the Smiths that have an account on ganymede. To slow it down to only fill one screen at a time, add |p after the above command. The | is the character above the slash on the top right of the keyboard.

Feel free to ask the assistants for help at any time.

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