Setting up Mozilla mail to use an alternate incoming INBOX

After your mail-alias with an alternate "incoming" INBOX has been set up, you must configure Mozilla mail to view an alternate "incoming" INBOX. You will use both the UNIX operating system and Mozilla mail. You will need to open a SSH Secure Shell application and connect to copland.udel.edu.

Warning: Simultaneous access to the "incoming" file
If you use Mozilla mail to access the "incoming" file or shared folders associated with a mail-alias, you will not get any "read-only' warnings if you are accessing a folder previously opened by someone else in your mail-alias project. Other people accessing these files will not have write access to the files, so any messages they mark for deletion will not be deleted. We recommend that you set up a schedule of who will be reading the mail on specific days.

Table of Contents

A. Create a symbolic link to the mail-alias directory
B. Configure Mozilla mail with an Account to read your mail-alias.

Note: Substitute your mail-alias name for "alias-name" in these instructions.
A. Create a symbolic link to the mail-alias directory

Open your SSH Secure Shell Client.

Connect to copland.udel.edu and log in with your UDelNet ID and password.

Check to see if you have a mail/ directory by typing
and view your list of files and directories. If you do not see an entry similiar to this:
type the following
Change into your mail directory by typing

cd mail

Press the ENTER key.

Create a symbolic link by typing

alias-name alias-name

Note: You substitute your mail alias name in the above where it says "alias-name".

Example:

ln -s /home/strauss/usrc/alternate_folders/us-it us-it

(Note: The ln command above starts with the letter "l", not the number "1".)

Press the ENTER key.

Logout of copland.udel.edu by typing "exit" at the copland.udel.edu% prompt