What doesn a mailserv account give me that a “UNIX account” on tigger or icarus does?
• Space for a personal Web page. • A “UNIX shell” account that you can use for computing-type applications, such as programming and database applications. • pine, a login and use email program. The only real advantage to having access to pine is that you can telnet to your UNIX account when you’re on the road, login, and use pine to do your email. That used to be a significant advantage, but now it’s much easier to use any convenient Web browser to go to the WebMail page at https://webmail.uic.edu and do your email from anywhere that way. • However, you can have both an icarus or tigger account and a mailserv account. And you can use pine from tigger or icarus to read your email on mailserv. The move to mailserv utility will set this up for you if you want.
