What are the SMTP settings for sending mail?
Our SMTP server is smtp.ocf.berkeley.edu. Please note that if you are using our SMTP server from a remote location (e.g., not from an OCF computer), then you must use your OCF email address as the “From” address — you cannot use your CalMail address instead, for example. Restricting the outgoing email to our domain helps cut down on spammers using our server to send spam. • What other mail programs are there? There are many other mail programs that the OCF has installed and ready for use. The first is elm, another full-screen mail program like pine. It is a little smaller and a little faster than pine, and has some different utilities. Standard on most systems is mail, which provides an interactive shell for you to read your mail. This program generally carries a bit of a learning curve but is essentially universal on every flavor of UNIX available. Another powerful mail tool is MH, or Mail Handler. This carries the highest learning curve of all but is very powerful and is command-lin