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Reading and sending e-mail on the Northstar workstations is essentially the
same as using e-mail on any standard UNIX system. Although the incoming mail is
stored on a central file server, it is visible to every workstation as though
it were local mail. Therefore, the standard UNIX mail tools work correctly.
Mail addressed to any Northstar workstation will silently be passed
to northstar.dartmouth.edu for delivery into the mailboxes.
Users cannot log in directly to this machine; it is restricted to processing
e-mail. E-mail sent from a Northstar workstation appears to come from
northstar.dartmouth.edu. Do not use
individual workstation names when you give your e-mail address to others; they
may change in the future. Always use
username@northstar.dartmouth.edu.
The recommended mail tool for most people is pine.
Forwarding Mail
New accounts on the Research Computing systems automatically
forward e-mail to your default Dartmouth address. If you want to use your UNIX
account for reading e-mail, delete or rename the file .forward
in your home directory.
To reconfigure e-mail forwarding to another system (such as
BlitzMail), set up e-mail forwarding in the standard UNIX way by
providing a file named .forward in your home directory that
contains the address(es) you want to forward all your e-mail to. Note that the
first character of the filename is ".".
For example, to forward all your e-mail to BlitzMail, enter the
command echo my.full.name@mac.dartmouth.edu > ~/.forward in
a shell window.
See also: BlitzMail or UNIX Mail?
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