Mail Tools

• Mail
• pine
  • .pinerc

    user-domain=wise.tau.ac.il
    smtp-server=wise.tau.ac.il
    

    • inbox-path=/var/spool/mail/username
      or
      
    • inbox-path={wise.tau.ac.il/ssl/user=username/novalidate-cert}inbox
    
    image-viewer=xv
    enable-unix-pipe-cmd
    color-style=no-color (If you want pine to run without colors )

  • Cut/Paste in pine
    Hold the Shift Key down while clicking left or middle mouse buttons from the normal xterm cut/paste operations

  • Reading Hebrew message in pine
    
    1. Choose a hebrew font:
       xlsfonts | grep heb
       xlsfonts | grep miriam
       xlsfonts | grep iso8859-8
    2. xterm -fn 'hebrew-font'
       example: xterm -fn heb10x20
       Note: In Redhat9 some definitions have to be added.
       Use xterm_heb which setups the hebrew language and calls xterm with a nice hebrew font.
    3. In the xterm, type: pine
       In the Hebrew message: | log2vis
       
• Netscape mail
• Mozilla mail
• kmail (in kde)
• thunderbird
• evolution
• Microsoft Outlook

• Accessing wise.tau.ac.il mail server from in- & outside TAU ( using imap )
  1. squirrelmail

     http://wise-obs.tau.ac.il/private/mail

     Note: Don't choose the option to save the password in your computer !!!

  2. webmail

     http://webmail.tau.ac.il

     choose as imap server: wise.tau.ac.il

     Note: Don't choose the option to save the password in your computer !!!

Forwarding Mail

In order to forward e-mail, don't use the /home/wise/username/.forward file. The setup should be done in /home/wise/username/.procmailrc
Add the following definition to /home/wise/username/.procmailrc

-----------------------------------------------------------------

:0 c
*!^From.*MAILER-DAEMON
! username@hostname


-----------------------------------------------------------------
3. line: forward the local mail to username@hostname

1. line: The "c" means leave a copy in the local /var/spool/mail/username If you don't want to leave a copy, then omit the "c"

2. line: Ignore mail which comes from MAILER-DAEMON. This definition is very important, because when you reach the disk quota limit at your new address, then the mail will jump back to wise with an error-message. Without the definition in the second line, there will be a loop in your mail. The "ping-pong" will continue until our /var/spool/mail gets full, and our mailserver gets stuck.

P.S. If you are interesting in our on-line mail backup, then don't remove the line in /home/wise/username/.procmailrc:

INCLUDERC=/etc/procmailrc.mailbck

Sending mail to a large list of users

send_msg script:

It gets following input parameters:

1. The filename containing the message
2. subject string
3. filename of addresses

For example:

send_msg message-filename "Test" file-addresses

The filename of addresses may contain several addresses in the same line, seperated either by a comma or blank. You can build long lines, using \
The user who gets the mail will see the addresses from the same line, but not from the other ones.

"send_msg" script will enter a delay of 1 second before sending it to each address, to avoid overloading of our system and network.