Email on the Lehman College Alpha

When your teacher gets an account for you, write down your login=username and your password.
Do this carefully: upper case letters (capitals) differ from lower  case letters.
Your e-mail address is <your login/username>@alpha.lehman.cuny.edu

Log in = connect:

    1)On the Lehman.C. campus where most computers have a direct connection:

        click Start, click Run -- type telnet:alpha -- press the Enter key
        at the prompt, type your login/user name -- all lower case --  press Enter
        at the prompt, type your password and press the Enter key.
            If you get an error message because you made a typo, press Enter and start over.
 

    2)Off campus and in our labs:

        If you have an ISP (=Internet Service Provider), first go online
            then click Start, click Run --type telnet://alpha.lehman.cuny.edu -- press the Enter key.
 
 

Once connected, type pine and press Enter.
 

First time: If you need accents etc., for German and/or Romance languages:

On the Mainmenu, press S(etup), C(onfigure).  Then press the spacebar about 11 times, till you see
Character-set. Change this to ISO-8859-1 (which is the International character set).

Pine -- the name of the e-mail package on the Alpha:

Online tutorials:  Inter-Links Pine Page, Cutting down Pine
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