Subject: how to check my e-mail at the University when I am at home

From: [email-masked] (AGBK)
Date: 16 Mar 1997 19:04:18 GMT

I can't figure out how to check my e-mail from home or other off campus
sites. Can you help?

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 09:58:50 +0100 (CET)

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  >I can't figure out how to check my e-mail from home or other off campus
  
Three basic options:

1. Post your password and username to the list and we'll print out your
mails and send them to you.

2. Call the aol hotline and tell them your problem. They won't understand
you, but they'll be friendly and comforting.

3. RTFM, UTSL, and post to the right group
(alt.online-service.america-online). Your question isn't pine-related, in
fact doesn't have to do much with email at all. Do you have to undergo a
lobotomy these days to get an aol-account?

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From: [email-masked] (Frans ter Borg)
Date: 16 Mar 1997 22:42:40 GMT

AGBK ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I can't figure out how to check my e-mail from home or other off campus
: sites. Can you help?

How do you read you mail on campus then ?

Frans
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From: Robert J Wilshe <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 13:57:38 -0600 (CST)

Hello:

To answer you best, we'll need a little more information about your
school's information systems.  Specifically:  

	a)  Do they allow internet mail?  (most likely)
	b)  What kind of mail servers are they running?  (UNIX, NT, other)
	c)  Are they accessible over the Internet?
	d)  If so, by what protocol?  (POP3 most likely or IMAP)
	e)  If the host is UNIX based, can you telnet to it, or, dial up
	    to it?
	f)  If its UNIX based, do they have a mail reader, like Pine?  (I
 	    assume they do, since you're making a request to this list)
	g)  If not, do you have some POP3 client (like Eudora) that can
            access it?

If you can answer these questions, you'll probably find your answer in the
course of finding out this information.  Regardless, you probably can't
access or use any method to retrieve your school mail on AOL.  You'll need
to use an ISP for internet access to your mail (above), or have
communications software on your PC (like Windows Terminal or
HyperTerminal) to dial up to a regualr node in your school's system (if
they allow this).

Start with the Information Systems or Technology department in your
school.  If you're not sure who or where to ask, go to any computer lab
and start asking questions.  Hopefully, they'll steer you in the right
direction, or answer you.

Good luck!!!

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From: [email-masked] (Salvador.R.Manzo)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 01:58:33 GMT

>I can't figure out how to check my e-mail from home or other off campus

You can use AOL to check, but it's a bit of work.
What you have to do is connect to AOL, then run a Telnet program.
When the program asks what system to connect to, enter the address for
your home server. Once your there, you'll probably have to login your
account.  If your server has pine, you just type in pine at the
prompt.

Of course, to do this, you need a good Telnet program and the address
for your server.