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• Your cis account provides you the mailing address username@cis.ohio-state.edu.

The command line ‘pine’ may be used to bring up a menu-driven email reader (home page, tutorial, tutorial).

Forwarding Your Cis Email Elsewhere

Prepare a file named ‘.forward’ with your forward address at the first line. The command

may be used for creating the file.

You can discontinue the forwarding servive by removing the file with the command ‘rm .forward’.

Please:

• Don’t type long lines (e.g., at most 72 characters per line). See example on how they can look on some email readers.
• Send only text-based notes. In particular, don’t include html decoration (see example on how bad they can appear in some mail readers).

Setting Text-Based Emails

See the expita.com and/or RootsWeb.com web pages. Also see additional comments for Yahoo mail.