School of Electronic Engineering
New Undergraduate Email Facility: pine
Session 1998/99
Last Updated: 30th September 1998
As a result of a number of incidents of abuse of the email
facility in the last academic session, this facility has been
substantially overhauled for the Academic Year 1998-1999.
All students have been issued with a new email address, of the
form:
id-number@ugmail.eeng.dcu.ie
Mail addressed to your old address (if any) will be
automatically forwarded to this new address.
The use of Netscape, QVTnet, Eudora,
or any other PC based mail client is no longer supported. You
can no longer send or receive email using any of these programs via
the PCs operated by the School.
The only supported email client is now pine,
executed on the undergraduate email server thorung.
To use email via pine you must first start a
telnet session to thorung. On the School PCs
running NT, you should do this using the ewan application,
which you can find via the Start menu. Login to
thorung using the same username (i.e., your ID number) and
password as you use to login on NT. Once your get the shell prompt,
just type the command pine to get into pine.
pine is generally self-explanatory in operation, with
excellent online help. Just read and follow the instructions you
receive as you go along.
After quitting out of pine remember to terminate your
telnet session by typing the command exit.
Additional background and technical documentation on
pine is available at:
Note that your home directory area, when logged into
thorung, is the same area locally mapped on drive letter
H: under NT. So if you ``export'' a message, or save an
attachment, from pine into a file in your home tree, that will
then be directly accessible under NT also.
If you had left email in your ``old'' mailbox, from last
academic year, this will not be automatically transferred to
your new mailbox. However, for a temporary transitional period, you
may still login to thorung using your old account information
(username and password), and then use pine to access the
contents of your old mailbox. Similarly, if you had any important
materials stored in the home directory (on thorung)
associated with one of these old accounts, you should remove it (e.g.,
by ftp) without further delay. All these old accounts, and
corresponding mailboxes and home directories, will be removed on
Friday 30th October 1998. There will be no possibility of
recovering materials from these accounts after that date.
Please note that all email may be monitored to ensure
conformance with the School and HEAnet Acceptable Use Policies.