NSCEE - National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment

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The following links should help you find the answers to most of the questions you may have concerning e-mail.

If you are using a program like Eudora or Mozilla (Netscape) to read email please see our page about setting up secure email login--click here.
If you have SSH'd into your account, e-mail may be read with either nmh (new mail handler) or Pine.

PINE

Pine has a text browser style interface. Pine can be started by typing 'pine' (no quotes) at the command line. Pine will configure itself and display its start screen where commands are listed on the screen for further action. You can find more information on Pine here.

Setting up nmh

Setting up nmh is machine dependent so please follow the directions for the machine you will be loging into.

CLARK	FREMONT
You must edit your .cshrc file so that the man pages for nmh will show	Type the following command verbatim without the single quotes:
Be very careful doing this. Mistakes in this file can have serious, deleterious consequences. For more information on this and other system files click here (this link is under construction).	'uchkconfig -f nmh on'
To begin open the .cshrc file in a text editor For example, from your home directory, type: 'emacs .cshrc'	You must logout and login for the changes to take effect. You may do so now or wait for a more convenient time. If you choose to wait do not try to use nmh.
Scroll down to the line in the file that looks like this: #setenv NMHUSER	Intentionally blank
Delete the '#' (pound sign) at the beginning of the line. This uncomments the line so that nmh will now be configured for you. When you are finished make sure you save the changes to the file.	Intentionally blank
You must logout and login for the changes to take effect. You may do so now or wait for a more convenient time. If you choose to wait do not try to use nmh.	Intentionally blank
You are done. Type 'man nmh' for an overview and tutorial.

A list of essential mh commands is below. For more information follow the link to the website for nmh (new mh)
or type 'man XXX' where XXX is either 'nmh' or one of its commands such as 'inc'

mh - Message Handler for E-Mail
The minimum set of mh commands that you can get by with is:

inc incorporate mail (get new mail)

show show the first message

next show the next message

comp -editor emacs compose a new message to send using the emacs editor

repl reply to a received message

scan list contents of entire mailbox

rmm remove a mail message

For more information on mh see the website for new mh