An introduction to email at PSU.

• General information

• Forwarding email on a Sun cluster machine to somewhere else

• Forwarding Access email to somewhere else

• More information

General Information

As a student, staff or faculty of Penn State University you can obtain an Access account that enables you to receive and send email.

To get your Access account go to the lab, W-305, and ask the lab operator.

You will be given a user ID which will usually be a combination of your initials and a 3 digit numbers for students and a 1 or 2 digit number for faculty and staff. For example, if Foo Bar is a student, he would probably have an ID such as

          fxb101

The email address of Foo Bar is then

         fxb101@psu.edu

For those of you who have been here for some time, you may have found that Foo Bar could also use the email address

         fxb101@email.psu.edu

However, that is no longer true. That is, the email address

	fxb101@email.psu.edu

is an invalid address. SIMPLY DON'T USE THAT FORM OF ADDRESS, use the form

	fxb101@psu.edu

If you have accounts on different machines and would like all of your email to go to one machine only then read on. Actually, it is a good idea to have all of your emails forwarded to one machine.

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Forwarding email on a Sun cluster machine to somewhere else

This applies only if you have an account on a Unix machine such as those in our Sun cluster.

• Login to one of our Sun machines
• Type

  	cd
  	ls -a
  

• If you have file called

  	.forward
  

  then you need to edit it. If it is not there you need to create it. Either way, this can be done by using an editor such as emacs, pico, or vi.
• You need to put the email address that you want your email to be forwarded in there. For example, if your Access email is

          fxb101@psu.edu 
  

  and you want to forward your email on the Sun cluster to your Access email address then your .forward file must contain the single line:

  	fxb101@psu.edu
  

• NOTE 1: It's best to use the format fxb101@psu.edu instead of fxb101@email.psu.edu.
• NOTE 2: To stop mail forwarding you have to remove the .forward file. The command is

  	rm .forward
  

• NOTE 3: The above instructions are also applicable for those who have an account on a Unix machine such as farman.

Forwarding Access email to somewhere else

• You can forward your Access email to somewhere else by going to the following site http://www.work.psu.edu. You can change your Access password while you are there too.

• Go to one of the PC lab, in Windows, open the Internet Apps group, and double click on the 'Phone Book' icon.
• Click on File and then click on Login
• Enter your Access email user ID
• Enter your password. This is most likely the password that you received originally when you first got your Access user ID. If that doesn't work then you probably have changed your password. In that case, use the password that you use when you read email through Eudora.
• Note that even if you have changed your password through Eudora you may not have changed the password on the phone book server. In that case, you still need to use the original password that was given to you when you first got your Access user ID.
• Once you have logged in to the phone book server you will see a screen of info about your entry in the phone book. Certain entries are modifiable and others are not.

  Select the entry that named Email, and modify it so that it contains the email address that you want your email to forward to. For example, if you prefer to read your email on the Sun cluster instead then in the Email entry of the phone book, you should enter

  	fxb101@turing.hbg.psu.edu
  

• NOTE: Once you are in the Phone Book server you can change your password on the server by clicking on File then on Change Password. It may make life easier to have the same password for your Access email and your account on the Phone Book server.

More information

• Computing at Penn State
• Access Accounts