Cerritos College Alpha Logon and Email Guide

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Cerritos College Alpha Log-on and Email Guide

• BCIS Department
• Feb. 5, 1998

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Cerritos Alpha Log on Procedure

• Click on the Terminal Icon
• Eagle Secure Gateway.
• Cerritos College AlphaServer 2100A 5/250
  (Alpha1), VMS V6.2-1H2
• Username USERNAME
• Password
• When you enter your password, the characters will
  not be displayed
• User ID consists of 5 letters (from your last
  name) and 3 numbers
• Your initial password will need to be changed

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Password Security

• Do not give your password to anyone
• The first time you log into the Alpha system you
  will be required to change your password.
• Passwords are a minimum of six characters and a
  maximum of 32 characters
• Passwords cannot have imbedded spaces
• Avoid names or words that can be readily
  associated with you

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Changing your password

• Your initial password must be changed using the
  following steps
• You will be required to enter your old (initial)
  password
• You will be asked to enter a new password twice
• The passwords you enter will not display on your
  screen
• Old Password (enter your old password)
• New Password (enter your new password)
• Verification (enter your new
  password again)

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Email (Electronic Mail)

• Type EMAIL at the prompt
• EMAIL will respond with the EMAIL prompt
• Help is available by typing HELP at the EMAIL
  prompt
• EMAILHELP
• EMAILHELP SEND
• EMAILHELP any command

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Basic EMAIL Commands

• At the EMAIL prompt you may enter the
  following commands
• SEND
• READ
• REPLY
• FORWARD
• DIRECTORY
• DIRECTORY folder_name

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Basic EMAIL Commands - continued

• At the EMAIL prompt you may enter the
  following commands
• DELETE
• MOVE folder_name
• SELECT folder_name
• HELP
• EXTRACT File_name.ext
• EXIT

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Information about folders

• Electronic mail messages are stored in folders.
• There are three (3) default folders
• NEWMAIL (Incoming unread mail)
• MAIL (Old, previously read
  mail)
• WASTEBASKET (Deleted mail)
• How to create new folders
• when reading a message, MOVE the message to a
  folder
• EMAILMOVE folder_name

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SEND command

• SEND
• (Create your message)
• SEND filename.ext
• (Send a file as your message)
• SEND/EDIT filename.ext
• (use editor, begin with the contents of a file)
• EMAILSEND
• TO (Enter the username(s) of persons)
• CC (Enter your user id and persons to CC)
• SUBJECT (Enter a subject or title for the
  message)
• Use Ctrl-Z to exit the editor and send your
  message

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Reading Messages - Related Commands

• RETURN or ENTER key (Reads next message)
• READ 5 (reads 5th message in
  current folder)
• 5 (reads 5th message in
  current folder)
• READ/EDIT 5 (read 5th message using the
  editor)
• READ MAIL (change to MAIL folder, read
  1st message)
• NEXT (read next message)
• BACK (read previous message)
• CURRENT (re-read current message from
  beginning)

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REPLY Command

• You must be reading a message to initiate a
  REPLY.
• Reply dialog does not ask for TO but will ask
  for CC
• REPLY
• reply to the current message
• REPLY/EXTRACT
• include current message in reply
• REPLY filename.ext
• use filename.ext as reply message

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FORWARD Command

• You must be reading a message in order to use
  FORWARD
• acts much like the SEND command
• FORWARD
• forward the current message
• FORWARD/EDIT
• uses editor to add a note to the message

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DIRECTORY Command

• The DIRECTORY command changes the current
  selection set
• DIR
• directory of current folder
• DIR folder_name
• list of messages in folder
• DIR/NEW
• directory of new messages
• DIR/FROMusername
• directory of messages from this user

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EXTRACT Command

• EXTRACT filename.ext
• extracts the current message
• EXTRACT/APPEND
• appends to existing file
• EXTRACT/ALL
• extracts current selection set

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DELETE Command

• When you delete a message it is placed in the
  WASTEBASKET. Deleted messages can be un-deleted
  by SELECTing the WASTEBASKET folder and moving
  the messages to another folder.
• DELETE
• delete the current message
• DELETE 7
• delete message 7
• DELETE 7,12,25
• delete messages 7, 12, and 25
• DELETE 5-9
• delete messages 5 through 9

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PURGE Command

• PURGE is to delete of messages in the
  wastebasket
• An automatic purge is done when you exit EMAIL.
• PURGE
• empty the WASTEBASKET folder