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Pine E-mail Program—Send and Receive Attachments |
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| ITS Help Documents >> ITS E-mail and Calendar Services Documentation >> ITS's Other E-mail Servers >> Pine E-mail Program >> Send and Receive Attachments The way you send attachments through e-mail depends on the computer platform you are using. The directions that follow will tell you how to send attachments in Pine on either a Mac or a PC.
How to Send Attachments with Pine on MacintoshIn order to attach a file to an e-mail message, you must first upload the file you want to attach into your e-mail account. ITS recommends that you use the file transfer program Fetch to do this.
1. To connect to your attachment space using Fetch, first open Fetch. (If you're on an ITS lab machine, you can find the Fetch icon under the Applications menu.) Once Fetch is open, a New Connection dialog box will appear. Type the name of the Unix machine your account is on (e.g., ucsub, ucsu, spot) in the Host field, then type your CU login name in the User ID field. From the Security: drop-down menu select GSS. Then leave the Directory field empty. Your New Connection window should look similar to the window below, except your e-mail server and CU Login Name should be subsituted for what appears below:
2. Click OK to start your file transfer session.
3. A new window will appear. This is your Fetch session showing your e-mail account. It will look similar to the window below:
4. Click on Put File . . . to upload the file into your account.
5. A new window will appear. From here you can go to different folders on the computer you are using to locate the file you want to attach.
6. When you find your file, click Choose (or Open). A new window will appear. The important thing is to make sure there are no spaces in the file name or strange characters, such as #, $, etc. These characters will cause problems when you try to send the attachment. Click OK to upload your file.
5. Close down Fetch, log into your e-mail account and open Pine (type pine at the command prompt). 6. In Pine, type C to compose a message. Type the recipient's address in the To: field and tab down to the Attchmnt: field. Press ^j (the Control key and the letter 'j' at the same time),
7. At the File to attach: prompt, press ^t. A screen will display all the files and directories that exist in your Unix account. The document you uploaded through Fetch should be here.
7. Scroll with the arrows on your keyboard until your document is highlighted and then hit return.
8. Your document will now be attached to your e-mail message. Pine will now give you the option of typing in a comment and/or naming the document.
9. When you have finished composing your message, your window should like the following:
10. Press ^x to send the message. Your attachment should be sent at this point. How to Send Attachments with Pine for WindowsIn order to attach a file to an e-mail message, you must first upload the file you want to attach into your e-mail account. ITS recommends that you use the file transfer program within SSH Secure Shell to do this.
These instructions already assume that you are using SSH Secure Shell to connect to your e-mail via Pine. If you need help connecting to your e-mail go to www.colorado.edu/its/docs/authenticate/win_ssh.html 1. To connect to your attachment space using SSH Secure Shell, click on the Transfer icon that is shown in the window below.
2. Two panes will appear in the SSH Secure File Transfer Window. The left-hand pane is your local machine and the right-hand pane is the attachment space where you want to place the file you are going to attach to your e-mail.
3. Transferring your attachment is easy, just "drag and drop" the file from the Windows Explorer right-hand pane of the SSH Secure File Transfer Window or from elsewhere on your computer, as shown below:
Note: It is important to make sure there are no spaces in the file name or strange characters, such as #, $, etc. These characters will cause problems when you try to send the attachment. You should also make sure the file name appears on the right side of SSH Secure Shell window, and that the file size is not 0 bytes to verify it transferred properly. (If the file size is 0 bytes, the document contains no data.) 4. Once you have uploaded your attachment(s), you can close this transfer window and return to working in the Pine window, as shown below:
4. In Pine, type C to compose a message. Type the recipient's address in the To: field and tab down to the Attchmnt: field. Press ^j (the Control key and the letter 'j' at the same time).
5. At the File to attach: prompt, press ^t. A screen will display all the files and directories that exist in your Unix account. The document you uploaded should be here.
6. Scroll with the arrows on your keyboard until your document is highlighted and then hit enter.
7. Your document will now be attached to your e-mail message. Pine will now give you the option of typing in a comment and/or naming the document.
8. When you have finished composing your message, the window should like the one below:
9. Press ^x to send the message. Your attachment should be sent at this point. How To Receive and Work on a Attachment1. If someone sends you an attachment with an e-mail message, type V (ViewAttch), then press S to save the file. You can name it anything you want. 2. You can use Fetch or SSH Secure Shell to copy (download) this file onto your computer or your disk. To do this, reverse the process of sending the attachment. For example, on a Mac, click on Get File . . . instead of Put File . . . and copy it onto a location on your Mac. On a PC, drag the file from the right side to your desktop or to a special folder you have selected. 3. The files you receive can be .pdf, .doc, .bin, etc. Once the file(s) is in your computer, use the associated program with the corresponding file type to open them. Get Help |
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