How do I migrate away from CMS mail? (to Eudora or Pine)

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January/February 1997 Contents	Email: The Next Generation	A Plethora of Words: An Email Glossary	How do I migrate away from CMS mail? (to Eudora or Pine)	Netids, Userids, Aliases, Oh My!	Introducing the CSO	About the ADN Connection

How do I migrate away from CMS mail? (to Eudora or Pine)

Tech Tips

CMS UNIX Mac Windows Everyone

Who should migrate away from CMS mail?

Anyone who still uses NOTE and RDRLIST or MAIL on CMS to do electronic mail. And you, too, if you're using Eudora with a UICVM POP server; you should switch to a UNIX POP server in order to take advantage of server features such as "Leave Mail On Server". (See Using Eudora from Multiple Machines for details on using LMOS.)

Why should you move to use Eudora or Pine? With Eudora and Pine you can:

Automatically route messages into mail folders based on their headers and/or content. (Eudora and Pine)
Highlight message items with colors and text based on headers and/or content. (Eudora only)
Send and receive attachments containing any type of Mac or Windows file including images, word processing documents, video, audio, and so on. (Eudora and Pine)
Click on any URL included in a message. (Eudora only)
Process Usenet/Netnews groups as if they were in your Inbox. (Pine only)
Send and receive mail in rich text format. (Eudora only)
Copy and paste names and email addresses from your incoming mail (Eudora and Pine) or directly from the integrated ph client. (Eudora)
Print individual email messages to your local or networked printer. (Eudora and Pine)

And it's almost painless! (Just 10 steps.)

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Before you get started, check out the ADN articles and seminars on Eudora and Pine.

For online documentation about Eudora:: http://www.uic.edu/accc/software/eudora/
For online documentation about Pine:: http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/software/pine
Seminar schedule for the current academic session:: http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/workshops/

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1 Get a netid if you don't have one.

You should choose and register your UIC netid if you do not already have one. Your netid is your passport to ADN network services and is not the same as your CMS userid. To find out whether you have a netid, in CMS enter:

ph yourlastname

If you have a netid, it will be listed under "email_to". If you don't:

Faculty and staff:: See your departmental phonebook contact person to select and register your netid; in CMS, enter: pbcontact; to find out who he or she is. After you select your new netid, wait overnight for it to be registered in the online phonebook; then you can open your tigger account. (Check ph again, to make sure.)
Students:: Your netid will be assigned automatically when you obtain an account on icarus.

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2 Obtain a UNIX account on tigger (faculty and staff) or icarus (students).

You can do this yourself (but bring your university i-card with you). If you're on campus, you can also do it from the World Wide Web at:

After that, just follow the instructions.

If you have a problem opening your account that you can't solve it yourself by starting over again (many times it's just a matter of your typing something wrong), stop by the CSO, see a lab monitor in an ADN personal computer lab in BGRC, BSB, CCC, SEL, or SRC, or see the ADN operations staff in Room LL55 BGRC.

Tigger accounts are created right away; there's an overnight wait for icarus accounts. (Faculty and staff have to wait overnight to have their netids registered, so the overall process takes the same amount of time for everyone.)

Changing your UNIX password:

[It's a lot easier now -- you can do it from your Web browser. Visit the ACCC Password Change Utility on the Web. -- Ed.]

If you're going to use Eudora, you can probably get away with logging into your UNIX account just once a month, to change your password and keep it from expiring.

Telnet to tigger.cc.uic.edu or icarus.cc.uic.edu, then enter your netid and password when asked to.

After you login, enter: passwd

and follow the instructions to enter your old and new passwords.
Enter: logout (tigger) or: exit (icarus) to logoff.

ADN UNIX passwords are 6 to 8 characters long and must contain at least 2 alphabetic characters and at least 2 non-alphabetic characters.

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3 Get a copy of the Network Services Kit for your Mac or Windows system.

If you're going to be using Eudora, it's obvious why you need the NSKit; Eudora's in it. But you'll need the NSKit if you're going to use Pine, too, if you're going to login to your UNIX account from your desktop computer.

You can get a copy of the NSKit from the ftp.uic.edu FTP server, but you must be on campus to download the Kit. Information on obtaining and installing the NSKit is available on the Web at the URL: http://www.uic.edu

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4 Duplicate your incoming mail so it's sent to your both CMS and UNIX accounts.

This is the non-disruptive part because you'll receive your email both on CMS and on your new UNIX account. This allows you to practice using your UNIX maildrop, either with Pine or as your POP server for Eudora, and you'll still be able to switch back to UICVM if you encounter any problems.

Let's assume that you are Ada Byron Lovelace, your CMS userid is U12345, your UIC netid is adabyron, and your ADN UNIX account is on tigger. You should logon to your CMS account and enter these commands just one time each:

tell mailer set forward adabyron@tigger.cc.uic.edu
tell mailer set forward +U12345@uicvm.uic.edu

(The + in the second command tells the mailer to send your mail to CMS also. Enter:
tell mailer query forward
to check your forwarding after you set it. )

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5 Convert your CMS NAMES file for use with Eudora or Pine.

Name2nick is a CMS utility that reads your NAMES file and prepares an equivalent address file that you can use with Eudora or Pine. It doesn't actually change your NAMES file, so you'll still be able to use it with your CMS mail.

For Pine: nam2nick (pine: produces a file named ADDRESS BOOK. FTP this file to your UNIX account; put it in your home directory with the name: .addressbook
For Eudora for Windows: nam2nick (win: produces NNDBASE TXT. Download this file to your PC, keeping the same name: nndbase.txt
Put it in the same directory as Eudora.
For Eudora for Macs: nam2nick (mac: produces EUDORA NICKNAME. Download this file to your Mac; put it in the folder you have Eudora in with the name: Eudora Nicknames
Make sure its type is set to simple text.

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6 Setup your new mail program.

Eudora:: Assuming still that your netid is adabyron and you're using tigger as your POP server, you should change Eudora's "POP account" setting to be: adabyron@tigger.cc.uic.edu; The "POP account" setting is found under:; In older Eudoras: Checking Mail: Special->Configuration; In newer Eudoras: Tools->Options; In Hosts, for "SMTP" use: smtpserv4.cc.uic.edu, and "Ph" and "Finger" should both be: ns.uic.edu.; Fill out the Personal info also; type adabyron@uic.edu (replace the "adabyron" with your netid) in the "Return Address" field.
Pine:: You don't have to make any changes to the default Pine setup if you don't want to. You might want to take a look at its options, though. In the Pine Main menu, type s (Setup) then c (Configuration). "More on pine" in the November/December 1995 issue of The ADN Connection explains how to configure Pine. It's on the Web at: http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/newsletter/adn09/pine.html

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7 Practice using Eudora or Pine without disrupting your CMS mail activities.

You now should be able to become acquainted with Eudora and/or Pine comfortably and at your own pace. All of your mail will still be delivered to CMS as well, so there is no need to worry if you don't figure it out immediately.

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8 Resubscribe to listserv/majordomo discussion lists.

When you are using Eudora or Pine your mail will be sent out with a generic "return address" of the form yrnetid@uic.edu. This can confuse Listserv and Majordomo email list servers, which may still know you only by your old CMS address, which looks something like U12345@UICVM.UIC.EDU.

So to complete the change from CMS and your CMS userid to Eudora or Pine and your generic yrnetid@uic.edu email address, you also have to change your subscription to any email discussion group that you subscribed to using your userid. The least obtrusive way to do this is to subscribe to the list again, under your netid, using Eudora or Pine, and then, after you begin receiving two copies of the list's messages, turn off your original subscription.

To subscribe under your netid, use Eudora or Pine to send a subscription message to the list server that owns the list. (Not to the list!) The note should have no Subject: and the list server command should be its only text (no signature).

For example, to subscribe to the WordPerfect for Windows list, Ada Byron would send this email message to listserv@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu:

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 15:37:11 -0600 (cst)
From: Ada Lovelace Byron <adabyron@uic.edu>
To: listserv@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu
subscribe wpwin-l Ada Lovelace Byron

This list server answers with a note that asks you to reply to confirm your subscription; requiring confirmation for discussion list subscriptions is very common these days. Confirm using Eudora or Pine.

Once you are certain that you are receiving two copies of mail posted to the list, you can then logon to CMS and send email from there to unsubscribe from it. Only unsubscribe if you are receiving duplicate copies!

You have to send this "unsubscribe" note on CMS because only CMS knows about your userid. To make absolutely sure that it goes out with your userid as its return address and not anything else, use mail (not note) to send it, and specify the mail option direct. So Ada Byron would use:

mail listserv@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu (direct

on CMS to compose and send this note:

Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 12:23:56 -0600 (CST)
From: Ada Lovelace Byron <U12345@UICVM>
To: listserv@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu

unsubscribe wpwin-l

This may or may not work for you. Sometimes it takes a real person to straighten out a discussion group subscription when you're changing your email address, particularly a subscription that you originally made from CMS long ago when we still had BITNET. Most lists have a "list owner" who will help you if you run into trouble. Often your can reach the list owner at the email address listname-request@listserv.the.rest.of.it -- for example, at wpwin-l-request@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu for wpwin-l.

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9 Switch over completely after you are comfortable with using Pine or Eudora.

If you now feel comfortable using Eudora and/or Pine you can finish the process of migrating away from CMS. Logon to CMS and re-set the forwarding to your UNIX account only. To replace the "duplicate" forwarding of CMS mail with "single" forwarding, in CMS, Ada Byron would enter:

tell mailer set forward adabyron@tigger.cc.uic.edu

(Enter: tell mailer query forward to check it after it's set.)

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10 Finally, change your generic "uic.edu" address to send to your UNIX account.

The last step in moving from email on CMS is to disassociate your generic yrnetid@uic.edu email address from CMS and associate it with your UNIX account. "How do I forward my email to my new email address?" below explains how.

And once you've finished these last two steps, all mail addressed to either your userid at UICVM or to your netid at uic.edu will be forwarded directly to your UNIX maildrop, without stopping at UICVM on the way.

How do I forward my email to my new email address?

To forward all email messages coming into a CMS account to another email address:

Logon to your CMS account, and in CMS enter: tell mailer set forward snow@sherwood.forest
Replace the snow@sherwood.forest with the complete email address (not a NAMES nickname) where you want to receive your mail. The mailer assumes that you only want your mail delivered to one email account at a time, so entering another set forward command will not add a second account to the forwarding list, but rather replace old forwarding address with the new one.

To add an additional forwarding address, enter: tell mailer set forward +U12345@uicvm.uic.edu

To check your current forwarding instructions, enter: tell mailer query forward

To forward all email messages sent to your generic netid at uic.edu address to your UNIX account:

Login into your account on tigger or icarus and enter the command: phupdate
Follow the prompts to set your "emailbox" value to your real UNIX email address, for example Ada Byron would use: adabryon@tigger.cc.uic.edu

Enter: d (for done) when you finish. The change has to be processed before it actually takes effect. This processing is usually done overnight. You will receive an email message confirming the change and the email address you've requested.

Be careful when you do this; neither phupdate nor its overnight processing checks whether the email address you've entered is valid.

Comments are welcome; send them to:
Jim O'Leary, joleary@uic.edu

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