Sending and Receiving E-Mail
Receiving E-Mail
When you were granted an account on the computers in the Matthews/Remington
lab you also acquire an e-mail account. Your e-mail address is your
computer user name at the address uoxray.uoregon.edu. Lab notices
will be sent to you at this address so you should monitor your lab e-mail.
You can either read your e-mail using the lab e-mail server or have your
mail forwarded to another account, but you should be reading the letters
sent to you.
If you wish to have your lab e-mail automatically sent to your account
on another system simply create a file in the home directory of your lab
unix account named .forward. In this file write the name of the e-mail
address of your other account.
Reading E-Mail on a Unix System
There are two ways to read your e-mail when logged onto a unix system in
the lab.
The most common method is to use the program pine. Any good
e-mail program will have many options and pine is no exception. The
program is fairly easy to use because the options are all listed on the screen
and on-line help is available. You may also type man pine to
learn more. Basically all you have to do is to log on to a unix system
and type the pine command.
The second method is to run Netscape and use its e-mail application.
This program can handle e-mail attachments, such a pictures, in a simpler
fashion, but is more complicated to configure and takes longer to fire up.
Pine is so much quicker that few people use Netscape to read mail on unix.
If you wish to use Netscape you need to configure it in the same way you would
configure Netscape on a PC or Mac.
Sending E-Mail on a Unix System
There is no trick here when using pine. Just "compose" a letter and
send it.
When using Netscape you must configure an SMTP server just as you would
when on a PC or Mac. Our SMTP server is named email.uoxray.uoregon.edu.
Reading E-Mail on a PC or Mac
There are a large number of programs available for reading e-mail on PC's
and fewer on the Mac. Since there are so many I cannot describe the
details of configuring each and every one of them. I can supply the
information you will have to supply when you do configure one. We offer
your e-mail via an IMAP server named email.uoxray.uoregon.edu. Your
account name on this server is the same as your login name (a.k.a. user name)
on the unix systems in the lab. You will have to enter your unix account
password to read your mail.
Sending E-Mail on a PC or Mac
When you are configuring your e-mail application you will also have to
enter the name of an SMTP server. (SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transport
Protocol, the workhorse of all e-mail on the Internet.) The lab has
an SMTP server named email.uoxray.uoregon.edu. You also may use the
campus-wide SMTP server named email.uoregon.edu. The only problem with
using the campus server is that you will not be able to send e-mail if the
campus network is down. This does happen from time to time.
Dale Tronrud, Nov 13, 2001
webmaster@uoxray.uoregon.edu