Appendix A Administrative
Appendix B add-ons
Appendix C facilities
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By default, ALL mail is set up to automatically forward to the e-mail address that was provided when your account was set up. This e-mail address is called the "default" mail forwarding address. This allows you to receive email addressed to AnyAndAllNames@yourdomain. This means, any name you want typed before @yourdomain can be used. Your "default" forwarding address can be changed at any time by submitting an
Typically the webmaster gets all non-specifically addressed email to
the domain.
AnyAndAllNames@yourdomain.com forwards
to YourEmail@YourAccessProvider.com
Specific names@yourdomain can be forwarded in addition to the above.
Tom@yourdomain forwards to Tom@TomsAccessProvider.com
Bob@yourdomain forwards to Bob@BobsAccessProvider.com
By default, you do not need to set specific forwarding options for specific addresses associated with your domain name. (e.g.webmaster@yourname.com, sales@yourname.com, etc.) as long as you want any and all e-mail addressed to your domain name to go to your default e-mail forwarding address.
Sending mail with your CGI Scripts using Sendmail / EXIM
ROCKCI DIY Virtual Servers run the sendmail replacement EXIM.
To execute sendmail from your CGI program or other web application you
will need to reference the following mail program /usr/sbin/sendmail
"Shelling" In to check your mail
You can use your TELNET program to login to your ROCKCI DIY Virtual
Server and read your email, send email and replay to email. After logging
in, type the command mail Enter.
If you have mail, you will enter the sytem mail program. Our ROCKCI
DIY Virtual Server's
trusty manual can explain if you type the command man mail you
will see:
Sending mail
To
send a message to one or more people, mail can be invoked with argu-
ments
which are the names of people to whom the mail will be sent. You
are
then expected to type in your message, followed by a `control-D' at
the
beginning of a line. The section below Replying to or originating
mail,
describes some features of mail available to help you compose your
letter.
Reading mail
In
normal usage mail is given no arguments and checks your mail out of
the
post office, then prints out a one line header of each message found.
The
current message is initially the first message (numbered 1) and can
be
printed using the print command (which can be abbreviated `p'). You
can
move among the messages much as you move between lines in ed(1),
with
the commands `+' and `-' moving backwards and forwards, and simple
numbers.
Disposing of mail.
After
examining a message you can delete (d) the message or reply (r) to
it.
Deletion causes the mail program to forget about the message. This
is
not irreversible; the message can be undeleted (u) by giving its num-
ber,
or the mail session can be aborted by giving the exit (x) command.
Deleted
messages will, however, usually disappear never to be seen again.
Related Topics
3-2-2 Changing / Adding / Deleting
Email aliases, Email Forwarding
3-2-3 POP Email Accounts
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