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Please note that your EMAIL WILL NOT BE DELIVERED IF YOUR DISK QUOTA IS FULL ON GEMINI. Also, the maximum size of an individual message including attachments may not exceed 3 MG.

• Log into your PC Lab Account.
• Under the Start menu, go to Programs —› Internet —› PC Pine
• A dialog box will appear asking the username for your mail account on Gemini. It should already be present, since your username on Gemini is the same as your PC Lab Account Name.
• Click OK.
• Next, enter the password to your account on Gemini and click OK.
• In PC Pine you can use either the pulldown menus at the top of your screen, or the shortcut menus at the bottom of your screen.

To send a message:

Select C COMPOSE MESSAGE and press [Enter] or select Send > Compose Message from the pulldown menus at the top.

    To:  jqsmithson21 (For example to Jane Q. Smithsonian)
    Cc: jbsmith24 (Also send a copy to John B. Smith)
    Attchmnt:
    Subject: Friday’s Party (Type an appropriate subject.)
    -----Message Text-----
    Type your message here.

If you wish to send to someone on the internet, use the full address such as jsmith@univ.edu

Click on ^X (CTRL X) in the menu at the bottom of the screen to send or from the pulldown menu at the top, select Compose and then Send. In the dialog box, click on Yes‘Y’ to send.

Reading a message:

From the Main Menu, select L Folder List and press [Enter] or from the pulldown menu at the top, Go > List Folders. Select the folder from which you wish to read your mail, such as INBOX for new mail or MAIL for messages you have read and press [Enter]. From the list of messages, select the one you wish to read and press [Enter].

Replying to a message:

To reply to a message you are reading, click on R Reply at the bottom of the screen or in the pulldown menu at the top, select Send > Reply.   Edit and add your comments to the message.

To send your reply, click on ^X in the bottom menu and in the dialog box click on Yes‘Y’.

Saving a message to a file:

To save a message to a file, from the menu at the top select Message > Export. In the dialog box, click on To Files‘T’ to browse to the location at which you would like to save the file. Type a filename. The default format is .txt, text file. Click Save.

Deleting a message:

While reading a message, select Message > Delete from the menu at the top or use D Delete at the bottom. This marks the message for deletion.

To delete multiple messages, select Go > Index from the menu at the top. Select a message from the list and type D to mark for deletion or U to undelete.

To actually remove the messages, select Messages > Expunge from the top menu. Otherwise, the message will be expunged when you exit PC Pine.

To exit PC Pine:

• Select Q QUIT and [Enter]  or select   File > Exit from the top menu.
• Double-click the Logoff icon to logoff from your PC lab account.

VMS Mail

Please note that your EMAIL WILL NOT BE DELIVERED IF YOUR DISK QUOTA IS FULL ON GEMINI. Also, the maximum size of an individual message including attachments may not exceed 3 MG.

Log onto Gemini. In the PC Labs, double-click on the Gemini icon on the desktop. You will see:

At the $ prompt, type mail and [Enter].

    $ mail

To send a message:

For example, to send a message to another student, Jane Q. Smithsonian, whose user name is jqsmithson21:

    MAIL> send
    To: jqsmithson21
    Subject: Class Assignment

In VMS Mail, to send email off campus through the internet you must use the special syntax:

    To: in%"jqsmithson@someuniv.edu"

Type your message in the EVE editor. Just start typing at the [End of file] line and your message will appear above it.

To send your message, press CTRL + Z (hold the Ctrl key and type Z).

In the PC labs, to cancel without sending:

• Press PF4 (the minus key on the numeric keypad, upper right corner) or CTRL + B (hold the Ctrl key and type B).
• In the command line at the bottom of the EVE editor, type QUIT.
• At the Continue quitting [Yes]? prompt, type: y and press [Enter].

To read a message in VMS Mail:

    MAIL> read/new

This will display any new messages that you have received on screen.

    MAIL> dir newmail

This will give you a directory listing of your new mail messages.

    MAIL> dir mail

This will give you a directory listing of the messages previously received. You may then type the number of a message you wish to reread, and it will be displayed on screen.

To reply to a message:

With the message to which you wish to reply on screen, type:

    MAIL> reply

This will invoke the EVE editor, and you will see the original message on your screen in EVE. Delete any extraneous text and type your reply. To send your message, press CTRL + Z. To cancel without sending, press CTRL + B or PF4 (minus sign on the numeric keypad in upper right corner), then type QUIT on the command line.

To save a message to a file:

With the message on screen that you want to extract to a file, type

    MAIL> extract filename.extension

where the filename.extension is the name of the file that the message will be written into. After you exit mail, you may confirm that the new file exists by typing DIR at the $ prompt. Note that if you do not specify an extension, the default .txt will be used.

To delete messages:

    MAIL> dir mail To get a directory listing of mail previously received

    MAIL> del # Where # is the number of the message you wish to delete

You may also delete a range of messages. For example:

    MAIL> del 1-8 Will delete messages numbered 1 through 8

    MAIL> del 1,3,5 Will delete only messages 1, 3, and 5

To exit VMS Mail:

    Mail> exit          To exit VMS Mail
    $ lo         Abbreviation for logout to leave Gemini
    Double-click the Logoff icon     To logoff the PC lab account

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August 20, 2004