E-mail Project

Worth: 0.5 point

Purpose:   To become familiar with using the Pine mail system (both basic and advanced features) on the UNIX composers.

Book: ACCT160 Computer Tutorials (3rd edition)

1. Read pp. 37-68.  If you are using Windows 95 in the B&E lab, Click TNVT (Copland) to get to the composers.
   
   
2. Create a signature file.  All mail in this course must have a signature file or it will be returned.  You can learn more about creating a signature file at the Educational Technology webpage, creating a pine signature file.   At a minimum, a signature file has your name and a telephone number where you can be reached.   All mail in this course also must have a salutation or it will be returned.
   
           IF YOU USE OUTLOOK:    I still expect a signature on all mail in this course.    To do   
                this,  Tools > Options > Mail Format > Signatures.
   
           IF YOU USE OUTLOOK EXPRESS:  I still expect a signature on all mail in this course.  
               To do this, go to Tools > Options > Signatures.
   
   
3. Compose an e-mail message to your instructor (see p. 37). In the middle of your message postpone writing it (see p. 41).   Quit Pine.
   
   
4. Use finger to find some other students with your last name or first name (see p. 54).   Go back to Pine and continue the message to your instructor reporting on someone else at the university with your last name or first name and his or her e-mail address. If you can't find anyone with your first, last, or middle names, try to find someone with a more common name similar to yours (FIND SOMEONE!).   If you have a common last name or first name be sure to use the |more (pipe symbol, then the word "more")  command after finger to force your screen to stop scrolling. Send the message but stay in Pine mail.  
   
   
5. Create a file folder for all messages concerning ACCT160 (see p. 60). Save any messages sent by me to that folder. View the contents of that folder and print the screen (session menu - print screen).
   
   
6. Create an address book containing two friends' email addresses at least (see p. 78). View the contents of your address book and print the screen.  

Type an MS-Word document as a formal memo to me concerning some topic in the class. The memo should be spellchecked.   Use one of the examples of memo found by opening MS Word: click on Files > New > Memos.   Remove the cc: line from the memo.   Make the memo brief, just a few lines.   Keep the right margin wide, with the total width being no greater than 78 characters wide.

Save the document on your A: diskette.   Give it a file name of your last name first initial up to 8 characters long. (Example: stinerf.doc).   FTP the file to your unix account (see p. 92).    The following instructions are for using FTP in the B&E lab under Windows95.    If you choose to do your homework elsewhere, FTP may be different.    Finally, be sure that your message has a signature created with a .signature file.

• Start > Programs > Onnet32 > FTP
• Logon to Copland. You will see the local machine on the left and the remote machine on the right.
• Find your file on the local machine (A: drive), click once to highlight.
• Click the arrow button to transfer the file.
• When you are finished: File-Exit
• DO NOT SAVE THIS SESSION WHEN ASKED! OTHERWISE YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD WILL REMAIN ON THE LOCAL COMPUTER AND OTHERS CAN GET INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.
• Log onto your UNIX account and send the file to your instructor as an attachment (see p. 91).

8. Study the information on how to name files on a computer (see p. 167).

Type an MS-Word document as a formal memo to me about another topic in the class and save it as an ASCII file (see Save as > file type > DOS text (.txt) only).   FTP that file to your UNIX account, remembering to click the ASCII button under modes on the FTP dialog box.   Log on to your UNIX account and send an e-mail message to yourself containing that file not as an attachment, but by reading it into the actual body of the e-mail message (see p. 100).   Then once you receive that e-mail message, print it off. (To print, read the message, type Y to print, Y for 'attached to ANSI', click Session/Print Spool Buffer.)