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Telnet

If you access the Internet from several different computers, you may access your email through a web-based accounts such as Hotmail or Gmail, OR you can use Telnet. Telnet is similar to web-based email in that it does not require you to configure software on the computer you're using in order to send and receive e-mail.

Telnet Technique

This technique lets you access and manage your e-mail directly on the Internet server. If you typically dial into the Internet in text-only mode (no PPP), you're likely already using this technique.

Advantages:

No special settings are required for e-mail on the computer you're using.
You manage your actual server mail box, deleting unwanted messages and saving those you might want to view again from another computer.

Disadvantages:

Sending attachments is not impossible but cumbersome.
You cannot view graphics or other non-text files e-mailed to you as attachments without a cumbersome download procedure.

Procedure:

Click Start, then Run. Type telnet fallon.scs.unr.edu (north) or telnet pioneer.nevada.edu (south) in the Run window and click OK.

You'll see a black window with a login: prompt. Type your login name (the first part only of your e-mail address) and press Enter. Then you'll see a passwd: prompt. Type in your password (the cursor will not move) and press Enter. When prompted for Terminal Type, type vt100 and press Enter.

You should now see a fallon or pioneer prompt. You are logged into the server. Type pine and press Enter.

The first time you access pine, you'll see a Welcome screen. Press E to exit.

When you see the pine menu, press I to list the index of your messages.

Use your cursor keys to scroll up and down your message list. You can press Enter to read a text message (then press I again to return to the index). You can press D to delete a message. Press Q to quit pine, then Y to affirm quitting.

When you're back to the fallon or pioneer prompt prompt, type exit to log off the server.