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Accessing the Atrium server and Pine E-mail

Atrium is a UNIX server at MUSC used to access IMAP E-mail and other systems. To access it, you must first have an MNA (MUSC Network Account).

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Accessing Atrium

Atrium is generally accessed via Telnet software. Telnet software allows you to make a connection from your workstation to a UNIX server.
  1. Open a telnet connection to atrium using the telnet software.
  2. If you are on campus, or connecting via MUSC's PPP service you need only enter atrium (in lowercase letters) as the host name.
  3. If you are off campus and using an internet service provide other than MUSC (such as AWOD, AOL, etc.) you must enter atrium.musc.edu as the host name.
- Instructions for Telnet through Windows

- Instructions for Telnet on a Mac  

Pine Internet E-mail - Connecting

Using a simple addressing scheme, you will be able to send E-mail via Atrium to any other Internet address on earth. You'll do this through an E-mail handler called Pine.
  1. When you login to Atrium and type pine, (note lower case) you'll see a Main Menu.
  2. Next to ENTER LOGIN NAME: you should see your MNA ID.
  3. Hit Enter or Return on your keyboard.
  4. You will then be prompted to enter your password. Enter the same password you used to access Atrium and hit Enter/Return.

Using Pine E-mail

First, in order to execute a command, you must use the Control key (^) in conjunction with another key. To Get Help, you would enter a ^G. Second, the Message Line won't be there all of the time. Third, as you move from line to line, Pine will highlight (reverse video) the current line.

The main components of E-mail are addressing, composing, sending and reading. The key to successful E-mail exchange is mastery of these components.

Compose a Message

  1. When you select C Compose Message, you'll see:

    To :
    Cc :
    Attachment:
    Subject:

  2. You can move from one line to another by using the TAB key or the arrow keys. Note: while you can TAB down the lines, you can't TAB back up. To go to a previous line, you'll have to use the up-arrow key.
  3. The first line (To:) is the addressee (such as jones@musc.edu or smithfield@mailbox.ca.org). Use a comma to separate multiple addresses.
  4. The second line (Cc:) is the address of the person that you'd like to receive a copy of your message (jones@musc.edu, etc.).
  5. The third line (Attachment:) is the file (if any) that you'd like to accompany the message.

    This file may be of any type (binary, text, etc.), but if it is not a text file, things get a little complicated (this is where MIME comes in. The ^J key combination brings up a message on the dialog line: File to attach: Here you can type in the name of the file you want to attach or type a ^T to see a list of files in your home directory. If the file you want to attach isn't there, you can type G (not ^G) to change to the directory where the file you want to attach is located.
    The file must be in your Homeroom for you to attach it to a Pine E-mail message.
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  6. The fourth line (Subject :) is where you'll type a short description of the message you're sending.
  7. After you've filled out the Header Information (above), you can start typing your message. The lines will wrap automatically (you don't have to put a <return> at the end of each line.) You can use the arrow keys to position your cursor and make corrections. Pine includes a spelling checker (^T).

Send a Message

When you're finished writing and editing your message, you type ^X to Send it.
A message on the dialog line asks: Send message?[y]: You type a y and off it goes.

After the message is sent, you are returned to the Main Menu. If you've made a mistake, a ^C will cancel a composed message, but nothing can cancel a sent message. Once you've entered ^X, your message is on its way.

Read Messages

The I Folder Index is the Main Menu choice that allows you to read incoming E-mail messages. When you have new mail, Pine's Main Menu will notify you in two places.
  1. The first is the Status Line, the top reversed line (white type on black background), at the right corner. You should see Folder: INBOX n Messages. The n is the number of messages in your INBOX.
  2. The second notification is right under the copyright line, also in reversed type, and enclosed in brackets [ ]. It should read [Folder "INBOX" opened with n messages].
  3. Pine lets you access this mail through the "INBOX" folder.
  4. When you select the I Folder Index - View messages in current folder from the Main Menu of Pine, you will get a list of all the messages (if any) waiting for you to read. You can read them by highlighting the message (using arrow keys) and pressing <return>. The highlighted message will appear on your screen.

Disposing of Read Messages

If you read the first message but not the second in your INBOX and then go back to the Main Menu and QUIT Pine, you get a series of questions on the Message Line at the bottom of the Pine screen. The first says Really quit pine?  Y [yes] N No to quit, type y. The first dialog line message says: Save the 1 read message in "readmail"? Y [yes] N No: If you type a Y here, Pine will save your message in a special read-mail folder where you can retrieve the message later. Then you'll get the message:

Expunge the 1 deleted message from "INBOX" Y [yes] N No:

Pine is asking if you want to remove from INBOX the copy of the message you just saved in the read-mail folder. In other words, do you want two copies of this message? If you use only Pine to check your E-mail, the answer is usually yes, because you have a copy in your read-mail folder and an extra copy would waste space.

However, if you also use Netscape or Mulberry E-mail, the messages you delete from the Pine INBOX are also deleted from those Inboxes.

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Handling Attachments

Pine is capable of viewing attachments saved in the Text Only or ASCII format. Image files and documents saved in Microsoft Word format, etc. can't be viewed in Pine. You must first save them to your ARCS Home Directory (A.K.A. Homeroom) and then view them with a more powerful application.

When you open an E-mail with a text attachment in pine, it will look something like this...



Hit the V key on your keyboard and the ATTACHMENT INDEX window will open.




Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to select "Unknown Document" and hit the V key to view it.


When you open an E-mail with an unreadable attachment in pine, it will look something like this...


Hit the V key on your keyboard and the ATTACHMENT INDEX window will open.




Hit the S key on your keyboard to save the attachment (in this case a .jpg image) to your ARCS Home Directory.




Hit the return or enter key and the attachment will be saved.




Hit the E key until you are back to the Pine main menu screen.
To view your newly saved attachment, access your Homeroom Directory and open it from there.

Beyond the Basics

Pine has many features, far more than we can cover is this manual. There are several reference sources that provide more detailed information. The Pine Main Menu ? Help feature and R RelNotes contain useful information.

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Address Books

Setting up an address book in Pine is the quickest and most accurate way to address E-mail messages to individuals and groups, especially if you will be corresponding frequently with them. From the Pine Main Menu choose Address Book and you will see the first address book menu.
 
Address Book entries consist of five parts:

    1. Nickname
    2. Fullname
    3. Fcc
    4. Comment
    5. Address

Let's say you want to enter addressing information for Thomas Justerini Alexander. Under Nickname, enter tom; under Fullname, enter Thomas Justerini Alexander; Fcc and Comment are optional and can be left blank; under Address, enter alexantj@musc.edu

Remember this about an address book entry in Pine: Fcc and Comment are optional and usually left blank; Nickname must be unique (you can't have two tom entries); Fullname can be anything you like (Pine won't catch duplicate addresses, only duplicate Nicknames); Address must be valid and literal (if an address calls for upper case letters, you must use upper case in the address field).

After you've filled out the entire address book entry, you can then just type tom in the TO: field and Pine will fill in the proper address alexantj@musc.edu.

After you've added names to your address book, Pine lets you go a step further. You can combine addresses into "Distribution Lists." Suppose you have 50 names in your address book, 20 of which are people in the Department of Medicine. If you want to send a single message to all 20, you could create a Distribution List called med. Then you could enter med at the TO: prompt and all 20 members of the Distribution List would be sent the message.

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Global Address Book

To make addressing campus E-mail easier, ARCS recently included a "global address book" option. Here you'll find MUSC Internet E-mail addresses including those for GroupWise and QuickMail users.

To use this global address book, select option A-Address Book. Use your Arrow key to move down past the line that says  Global AddressBook <ARCS Global Addressbook> Highlight [Select Here to See Expanded List] and press < return> When you see the list, use the W key to search for a name.

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Printing

Pine allows printing to a local or networked printer. Selecting the S Setup - Configure or update Pine Main Menu option will bring up this dialog line: 


Choosing P will bring you to the printer submenu. There are three choices. The casual user should not try to change either of the first two choices.

Printer attached to IBM PC or compatible, Macintosh (attached-to-ansi) is the first choice and should allow those connected to Atrium via PC client software (such as Telnet) to print to whichever printer is currently selected (under Windows' Print Manager or Macintosh's Chooser).

The Standard UNIX print command lpr should be used only by those who are attached to Atrium from another UNIX system with its own printer The lpr command will send your print job to the default UNIX print server on Atrium, which could be far removed from your workstation.

If you are working at a public access workstation (such as one in the Library), check with the lab staff to get the policy regarding printing.

On-line Help

Pine Help is available from every menu screen. Except for the Main Menu, this help is context sensitive. For example, if you invoke Help from the Main Menu, you will see the General Pine Commands help screen. However, if you invoke Help from within a submenu (such as Compose Message) you will see a help screen that is not only specific to that submenu, but also to the feature that is highlighted.

For Example: If you choose Main Menu item C (Compose Mail), you will find the TO: field highlighted. If you choose ^G (Get Help), you will see a help screen with information specific to the TO: field. The same is true for the Cc: field, the Attachment: field, etc. Help is always "in context" to the submenu and the highlighted feature.

NOTE: There are two different ways to invoke Help. If you want Help from the Main Menu, you must type a ? (question mark). From some submenus you must type ^G. The best way to be sure how to get to Help is to look at the Help Lines (the last two lines on the bottom of a Pine screen).