CS 1320 (Principles of Algorithm Design I):
Reading and Forwarding Mail Under Unix
Note: This document is current as of March 17, 2000;
much has changed since the previous version of these instructions.
The new instructions apply to the machines named Janus01, 02, etc.,
and Xena01, 02, etc. They do not apply to the machines named
Atlas01, etc.
If you submit your programs by mailing source code from your
CS Unix account, you will usually get some sort of response
via e-mail (either a reply from the cs1320-1 account or a message
from the mail daemon telling you about a problem such as a mistyped
address).
This e-mail will be routed back to your CS account, however,
which means that you either need to
forward it to another account or
read it using a Unix mail-reading program.
Forwarding mail under Unix
We prefer that you forward mail from your CS account to
the address where you normally read mail (for most of you, your
TUCC account).
To do this, create a text file
called .forward in your home directory containing
the address to which you want mail forwarded.
For example, if you want mail forwarded to your TUCC account,
this file should contain the single line of text
yourname@trinity.edu.
(To create a text file, use your favorite text editor, e.g.,
the one you use to write your program source.
Recall/note that files beginning with a "." do not normally
appear in
a Unix directory listing (as produced by the command ls).
To see all files, including those beginning with a ".",
use the command ls -a.)
To check that forwarding is working properly, try sending
a test message
from some other account -- your TUCC account, for example -- to
yourname@cs.trinity.edu. The test message should arrive at the
address to which you've forwarded your CS mail within a few minutes
(assuming there are no network problems); if it does not, something
is probably wrong, and you should review the instructions and/or
ask for help.
Reading mail under Unix
If you do not forward mail from your CS account,
you will need to log into the department mail server in order to
read it. This is possible, but strongly discouraged;
contact your instructor for information on how to do it.
Special instructions for Atlasxx machines
On these machines, forwarding still does not work,
and responses to any mail you send from the machine still comes
back to the same machine, where you can read it with a Unix
mail program such as elm.