Remote Computing
Electronic Mail
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SPARCbook Portable Workstation User Guide
You can disconnect SLIP by clicking the
Disconnect
button in the
Connect panel of the Notebook Computing Environment. See “Connect
Panel” in your NCE Guide. You should always ensure that there are no
data exchanges taking place before disconnecting the modem cables.
Electronic Mail
Your SPARCbook provides facilities for sending and receiving
electronic mail (or email).
While working as part of a larger network of machines, the network
itself normally provides email facilities. It is also possible to set up your
SPARCbook as a complete stand-alone email system. In this mode it
functions as a stand-alone domain on Internet and is able to send and
receive mail directly to and from any other Internet user. To do this, you
need to register with an Internet mail feed organization as a new Internet
node. See “Registering Internet addresses” on page 8-8.
Setting up email
Your SPARCbook is shipped ready to use existing Ethernet-based mail
facilities. If you attach to a network that already provides email
facilities, you need to contact your network administrator so that your
name can be added to those that the mail server knows about.
In order to access the mail facilities when you are away from the
network, you need to arrange for your mail to be forwarded to another
machine, acting as a remote dial-in mail server. You can then use a
modem to contact the remote server via a dial-in line to send and receive
mail.
You will have to consult the administrator for the server to obtain an
account on the remote server.
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