By Your Netid You Shall Be Known

Question: Now that I have a netid, how do I get it included as my return address when I send mail?

Answer: That depends on the mail system that you use.

On CMS, if you use MAIL, put this (including the quotation marks):
"setmail mailer pnsserv mailer"
in a file named mailuser xedit a. The first line of this file must be a Rexx comment:
/* my MAILprofile */

There are other ways to select options in the new Rice mail command, but this will work for either version.

On CMS, if you use NOTE, enter this command once in CMS:
globalv select $u12345 setlp mailer pnsserv

Replace the u12345 above with your U-number type userid. (Not your netid.)

On UNIX, if you use pine, fill in the user-domain in your ~/.pinerc file: user-domain=uic.edu

If you use Eudora, either for the Macintosh or for MS-Windows: select "Configuration.." from the "Special" menu. Then enter your-netid@uic.edu (replace the your-netid with your netid) in the "Return Address" field.

A word of warning... This will not put your netid on interactive messages sent with the tell command on CMS, nor can files be sent to your netid with the CMS sendfile command; these commands still use your U-number userid. Files can, however, be included in an electronic note and mailed to your netid. (This is much easier to accomplish with Pine or Eudora than on CMS.)

Question: I'm having trouble with my LISTSERV list subscriptions now that I'm using my netid. What gives?

Services that already know you by your userid at UICVM will not recognize mail coming from your netid at uic.edu as coming from you. And vice versa. A particular example is subscriptions to LISTSERV lists.

If you want to be known by your netid on a list, subscribe to the list by electronic mail. (This is the only way you can send messages to the growing number of list servers with Internet style domain names, like uicvm.cc.uic.edu, rather than BITNET ones, like UICVM). Send a note to the list server with no Subject:, with the list server command (or commands, one per line) as the only text of the note. For example, to subscribe to the WordPerfect for Windows list, I sent mail to listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, with the text:

subscribe wpwin-l Judith Grobe Sachs

mail listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu (direct

unsubscribe wpwin-l

Comments are appreciated; send them to
Judith Grobe Sachs, judygs@uic.edu

Want to know more about LISTSERV?

Take a look at the section on LISTSERV in the EARN Guide to Network Resources, produced by the EARN Association, BITNET's European counterpart. It's available through INFORM; use the search keyword earn. The Earn Guide is worth taking a look at; it has sections on the WWW, WAIS, Gopher, Usenet/Netnews and others.