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Posted: 10:37 AM, Monday, Feb 10, 2003
Last Updated: 10:55 AM, Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Below are documents on topics such as setting up email clients to read your GW email or GWMail, setting up your web pages, basic UNIX commands, SSH, file transfers, and mail filters.


EMail & News Web Pages & UNIX
Learn how to access Newsgroups (news server: news.gwu.edu) and your GWMail account - via PINE, Netscape Messenger, Outlook Express - for both Mac OS and Windows using GWMail's POP3 (pop.gwu.edu), IMAP (imap.gwu.edu) and SMTP (smtp.gwu.edu) servers. Web Pages: Instructions on setting up your Acad account for Web Pages, listing your Web Pages on GW's Elist, and password protecting your Web Pages.

UNIX: Basic UNIX commands, Pico and PINE.

SSH & SFTP Mail Filtering
Manuals on SSH (UNIX Shell access) and FTP (File Transfers) on Acad (hostname: acad.gwu.edu) for Mac OS and Windows. Tired of spam, junk mail and other unwanted email? Enable spam filtering and try mail filtering for PINE, Netscape Messenger and Outlook Express.



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