E-mail on the Internet

As you probably know, each of you already has a mailbox on the internet. Arnie gave me your names, and I found out your addresses. Here they are:

Deborah Smith	smit0217@gold.tc.umn.edu
Linda Stevens	stev0050@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Walter Erikson	eric0356@gold.tc.umn.edu
Kathryn Kurtz	kurt0021@gold.tc.umn.edu
Jennifer Madden	madd0011@gold.tc.umn.edu
Ing-Jye	Chang	chan0142@gold.tc.umn.edu
Bunkhean Chhun	chhu0002@gold.tc.umn.edu
Ann Curtis		curt0005@gold.tc.umn.edu
Jodi Hoff		hoff0053@gold.tc.umn.edu
Pijen Lin		linx0042@gold.tc.umn.edu
Laurel Anderson ande0846@gold.tc.umn.edu
Corey Andreasen	andr0028@gold.tc.umn.edu
Maryann Dorsey	dors0012@gold.tc.umn.edu
Robert Fenske	fens0012@gold.tc.umn.edu
Carol Halbur	halb0004@gold.tc.umn.edu
Apryl Henry		henr0036@gold.tc.umn.edu
Margaret Kleven	klev0002@gold.tc.umn.edu
Johanna Knutson	knut0049@gold.tc.umn.edu
Tarik Lemtouni	lemt0001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
William Mack	mack0045@gold.tc.umn.edu

But to use your mail, you need to log in first. Your mailing address on the Internet (the second column) also tells you the information on what to do to log in, at least from here at the Geometry Center. (We'll cover logging in from home later.) There are two parts to your address: the account name, which is to the left of the @ sign, and the machine you need to connect to in order to use your account, which is found to the right of the @ sign. So, to log in, type "telnet", followed by the name of the machine, as in this example:

telnet gold.tc.umn.edu

into the blue window. (It won't work if you are still using IRC, so you may need to quit that by typing /quit first.)

It should ask you for a login name, and at this point, type in your account name. For example, it may look like this:

Trying 128.101.116.12...
Connected to gold.tc.umn.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.


SunOS UNIX (gold)

login: mack0045

It will then ask for your password. If you don't know your password, try using your social security number. If that doesn't work, try your student id number. If that doesn't work, you'll need to find out your password, and one place to start would be to ask your teacher to send mail to help@tc.umn.edu :-)

Once you get in you should see a menu that will allow you to access your e-mail.