Currently CCBB does not provide a email service to it's its users. Quite frankly, this can be a bit time consuming when you consider all of the little bits and pieces that go into successfully managing an email server, and it does require some specialized knowledge. There are better email services on campus, with better features like calendaring, and anti-virus/spam checking. We'll discuss the options in a bit, but if you are cluster user one thing you will need to do is to setup your email forwarding. This should be done on every UNIX system where you have an account, because at times every UNIX computer will won't need to send you emails. For example, the clusters will email you when a job finishes. Since we want you to receive email, and since we don't want you using our systems as mail servers, everyone should set up and maintain a fowarding forwarding file. A file called .forward in your home directory is consulted by the server when it needs to send you an email. If you run the command
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replacing USERNAME with your username. If you don't get the test message, you should set the forwarding up again, or remove the .forward file completely.
Here are some other useful commands:
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