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Useful Links  Student Webmail Login  Staff Webmail Login  CMS Dept Website  CMS Unix News  System Status Quick Links  Reading Email From Home  Student Unix Access Search on CMS Unix Contact Addresses Student Email Problems: stumail@gre.ac.uk Staff Email Problems: staffmail@gre.ac.uk Support Notice Support can only be provided to staff and students of the CMS School, University of Greenwich.		Student Email Help Reading email via the 'webmail' web interface Reading email via Netscape Messenger Reading email via Mozilla Reading email via Mutt Reading email via Pine Creating sub-folders within email folders What is my university email address? IMPORTANT information is sent to your university email address and this account should be checked on a regular basis, failure to do this will build up a back log of mail and possibly result in new e-mails not being received or LOSS of old e-mails. Reading email via the 'webmail' web interface The Unix webmail application is similar in functionality to the web-based offerings such as Hotmail. This is accessible via the URL http://stumail.cms.gre.ac.uk. To login, use your normal username and your UNIX password, which will be the same as the one on your registration slip unless you have changed it. Once successfully logged in you are presented with a view of your current INBOX (the main email folder). Selecting a message from this view will allow you to read the email, and also perform functions such as reply to the sender or forward the email. Click Here to learn more about webmail NOTE: Please log into the correct system depending on whether you are a student or a member of staff (stumail and staffmail respectively). Failure to do so will result in the loss of personal settings and possibly corrupt INBOX's. Reading email via Netscape Messenger The second method of accessing your email is to use the Messenger email client built into the Netscape web browser. Netscape can be started from the command line with the following command: % netscape Once Netscape has started, goto Tasks -> Mail & Newsgroups to open up the Mail client. If this is the first time you have started the mail client you can Click Here to find out more about configuring the email client. Click Here to find out more about Netscape 6 Reading email via Mozilla Mozilla can be used in exactly the same way as Netscape described above. To start Mozilla, type the following at the command line: % mozilla If you have never used Mozilla before, Click here to find out more about configuring the email client. Click here to find out more about Mozilla Reading email via Mutt Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems. Some of Mutt's features include: color support message threading various features to support mailing lists, including list-reply active development community POP3 and IMAP support full control of message headers when composing highly customisable, including key bindings and macros change configuration automatically based on recipients, current folder, etc. searches using regular expressions, including an internal pattern matching language Mutt can be started by issuing the following command at the Unix shell prompt: % mutt To learn how to use mutt visit the Mutt Tutorial here Reading email via Pine Pine (Program for Internet News and Email) is an electronic mail system created and maintained by the Computing & Communications group at the University of Washington. Pine is a text-based, menu-driven program. It was designed to be an easy-to-use program for sending, reading, and saving Internet e-mail and news-group messages. Pine can be started by issuing the following command at the Unix shell prompt: % pine To learn how to use pine visit the Pine Tutorial here Creating sub-folders within email folders Please read our FAQ question here What is my university email address? Please read our FAQ question here

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