updated 2005-JAN-07

Which Netscape to use

Netscape is available in various forms on this system. Check the "software" page for details. You need to use the Communicator, not the Navigator form, to access your uleth.ca mailbox.

Mail at uleth.ca (IMAP server)

How to configure Netscape

Make the following changes to Netscape Communicator's configuration: Start Communicator and then select: 1. Edit->Preferences 2. Mail & Groups: 3. Mail Server: The most current settings can be found on the Information Technology pages at http://www.uleth.ca/it/Help/email/general_email_settings.html. 3. Directory: The most current settings can be found on the Information Technology pages at http://www.uleth.ca/it/Help/email/ldap.html.

How to configure CDE's dtmail

Dtmail is the mail tool available with the default SUN desktop (known as CDE). Accessing the uleth.ca IMAP server is easier and more convenient using dtmail than through Netscape. To configure it, open dtmail and select "Options", then select "Basic...". At the bottom of the resulting window in the "IMAP Inbox Server" field enter: mail-in.uleth.ca and then select "OK".

Note it is still possible to keep the cs.uleth.ca inbox /home/mail/$LOGNAME. If you want to keep using it too then you should probably put this box on the menu. Use "Options", "Move Menu Setup" and add Path/Mailbox Name: /home/mail/$LOGNAME, of course substituting the correct value for $LOGNAME. More likely you will want to forward your mail (see below).

Forwarding mail from cs.uleth.ca

If you want to have your cs.uleth.ca mail forwarded to uleth.ca (or for that matter to any other mailbox), create a file ".forward" in your home directory containing a single line which is the e-mail address to which mail should be forwarded to. Be careful not to generate loops. Mail should not be forwarded to accounts that are short lived.

Note that the .forward file must not be writable by anyone other than yourself. chmod 600 .forward is suggested.

uleth.ca mailbox hints

See http://www.uleth.ca/it/Help/email.htm to answer your questions about mail quotas, spam filtering, and virus blocking.

The Account Management page at https://www.uleth.ca/webtools/account_tools can be used to check account status, set e-mail forwarding, change your password, and perform other tasks related to your uleth.ca account.

If you do not want to use the uleth.ca mailbox you should forward mail to your cs mailbox.

Note Netscape's Message Center shows your inbox at @uleth.ca

To query the address directory under Netscape's Edit menu select -> Search Directory. Also you can search through your address book.

Your people.uleth.ca web pages

Information Technology provides information on using the people.uleth.ca webserver at http://www.uleth.ca/it/Help/Web_Space.htm.

To copy files over to your web pages at uleth.ca, just use ftp people.uleth.ca but don't forget to do a "cd public_html" as the first command in the ftp session.

Faculty members who wish to have their people.uleth.ca pages forward users to the www.cs.uleth.ca pages should ftp a copy of a "transfer" html page to people.uleth.ca

To obtain a suitable template you could modify a copy of http://home.uleth.ca/~holzmann/index.htm.

www.cs.uleth.ca, the Math & CS department's WWW server

The server has address http://www.cs.uleth.ca and is run independently from other University servers (www.uleth.ca, people.uleth.ca).

Where to put your html files

WWW files for user LOGNAME must be located at or below directory /home/LOGNAME/public_html. The directory and all files intended for the WWW should have UNIX world accessible permissions.

The WWW address for those pages is http://www.cs.uleth.ca/~LOGNAME .

UNIX symbolic links [the kind you create with the "ln -s" command] are not followed and should not be created.

Directories should have, but do not need to have, a file called "index.html" or "index.htm" (PC braindead naming) in them.
If the index file does not exist, the WWW server offers a file listing of the directory instead.

Course pages

Nicole Wilson wilsonn@cs.uleth.ca can provide you with the most up-to-date information on posting course pages. She might even provide a little tutorial to add to this page.