Copyright 1994 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.
Produced by the ISC Communications Group

Introduction to Elm

• What is Elm?
• Advantages of electronic mail
• Terminology and conventions
• Anatomy of electronic mail
• Delivery time
• Delivery failure messages
• Addressing a message
  • Internet addressing
  • Your e-mail address
• BITNET addressing
• Mail etiquette
• Security

Basic Commands and Features

• Understanding your mail queue
  • The current message
• Reading your mail
• Sending a message
  • Composing text using Pico
  • The header edit screen
  • Aborting a message
• Ending your Elm session
  • Quit
  • Exit
  • Quick exit
• Replying to a message
  • Individual reply
  • Group reply
• Forwarding a message
• Deleting a message
  • Undelete
• Working with folders
  • Save
  • Copy
  • Accessing folders
• Using aliases
  • Adding a new alias from an existing message
  • Creating a new alias
  • Deleting an alias
  • Changing an alias
  • Exiting the alias function
  • Creating distribution lists
• Limiting your message queue
  • Exiting the limit function
• Tagging messages for group actions
• Accessing help
• Elm directory service
  • Search criteria
  • Other options

Customizing Elm

• The Elm Options Editor
  • Message sorting criteria
  • User level
  • Arrow cursor
  • Menu display

Advanced Topics

• Printing an e-mail message
• File types, file transfer, and MIME
• Up and downloading an ASCII message
  • Uploading ASCII text into an e-mail message
  • Downloading the text of an ASCII message
• Up and downloading a MIME attachment
  • Uploading a MIME attachment using Kermit
  • Downloading a MIME attachment using Kermit
  • Uploading a MIME attachment using FTP
  • Downloading a MIME attachment using FTP

References

• Elm command reference
• Pico command reference
• PennInfo references

About the Guide to Elm at Penn

Elm is used and supported in almost every School and in many departments at Penn. Fee for service Elm accounts are available from Data Communications and Computing Services (DCCS). For more information, contact the PennNet Help Desk, 898-8171 or help@dccs.upenn.edu.

Elm is a public domain software product developed by Dave Talor of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and now supported by Syd Weinstein of Datacomp Systems, Inc (elm@DSI.COM). Pico is a public domain software product developed by Michael Seibel (mikes@cac.washington.edu) and Laurence Lundblade (lgl@cac.wahington.edu) of the University of Washington.

This guide is for use with Elm version 2.4PL23-upenn2.9. It was adapted from Introduction to PennNet Electronic Mail (1991: DCCS, University of Pennsylvania) and Guide to Elm (1992: Development Information Systems, University of Pennsylvania). The material in the Guide to Elm at Penn may be reprinted in whole or in part by members of the University of Pennsylvania community provided that the Guide to Elm at Penn is cited as the source.

Copyright 1994 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.
Produced by the ISC Communications Group