@students.latrobe.edu.au
address. Many students find it
tedious to check this email account regularly because they normally use some
other email system. What they don't realise is that they can use the
email server students.latrobe.edu.au
as an additional
POP server for their normal email software.
If your email client software can be configured to handle multiple POP
servers, try adding your students.latrobe.edu.au
account.
This way, you'll automatically fetch all of your official email into your
favourite mail handler.
Note to Serious
Hackers: if you're running Linux on your home computer, you can do
something similar with the excellent fetchmail
utility.
How to get it working is, however, outside the scope of this prac!
echo $MAIL
at the shell prompt.mailq
command. Try it. Same proviso as previous question.
.forward
in your home directory,
containing the email address you want your mail forwarded to. You also have to
ensure that the .forward
file is readable and writable
only by yourself: use the following Unix command to do this:
chmod 600 .forward
. For example, you could
create a .forward
pointing to your "university-supplied"
email address (eg yourID@students.latrobe.edu.au
), or if
you use an external ISP you could redirect your mail to that email address.
That way, mail sent to you on the Unix systems will be delivered to you at
your preferred address.
audio/basic
messages probably cause a sound file player to
be opened, whereas image/gif
normally opens an image
viewer. Discover where this behaviour is specified (possibly in a
"Preferences" menu item) and customise it. Can you control the MIME types of
enclosures, or attachments, which you send from your mail agent?
VRFY
command. Similarly, you can expand an email alias using the
EXPN
command. Telnet to port 25 on ironbark and
VRFY
the username pscott
. Then see if
you can EXPN
the alias scott