What to do about email, now that you can't "telnet to suhep":
Your BEST bet is to
use a client (such as netscape) to use the IMAP protocol. See
here for Netscape Messenger setup instructions.
Contrary to belief,
this protocol does not pull messages off the server. It's the best
protocol to use to access email from many different locations, yet have
them all the same since the messages and folders stay on the server.
If you're really forced to use a text based email... then here's how you can use pine from a different machine:
First, get on a client
that has pine (ie: one of the public cluster machines in 306, a SUnix server,
etc)
You will need to
change your configuration for pine.
Download this file
into your home directory: .pinerc
OR to do the
changes manually, run pine, go to Setup -> Config and find inbox-path
Change inbox-path
to {physics.syr.edu}inbox
change user-domain=phy.syr.edu
and change smtp-server=physics.syr.edu
and change rsh-open-timeout=0
Then *E*xit
config and *Y*es, save settings
You will need to
use your physics login and password
You can also do this manually by editing your .pinerc file with an editor such as vi or emacs.
If you do this from
a machine within physics that mounts your home directory, you should also
have access to your folders too.
If you do this from
a remote machine outside of physics, I don't have a solution for folders
at this time.
Let me know how this
works for you... what works, what doesnt.
If you find anything
that works better, or enables folders remotely, let me know and I'll post
here for others.