Summary of steps needed to change your HEP mail account to the new HEP mail server.
(Last mod: 28-Jan-02, TJH)

1) Creating your account on the new mail server:

Ask Tony for a password to your new account.

2) Moving your mail files to the new mail server:

e.g. for username "abc":
cp -r ~/mail  /unix/mail/abc

3)Using a new version of pine:

Set up to use the new version of pine:
If you use bash you could edit ~/.bash_profile to contain the line:
alias pine="/usr/bin/pine"
(the positioning of this line doesn't matter, provided it is executed)

If you use tcsh you could edit ~/.login to contain the line:
alias pine "/usr/bin/pine"
(the positioning of this line doesn't matter, provided it is executed)

4) Setup pine to access mail on the new server:

From the main pine screen, choose "S" (SETUP), then "L" (collectionList).
Highlight the word "mail" and hit return to get the edit screen for the
main mail collection.
Fill in the "Nickname", "Server" and "Path" as follows:

    Nickname  : mail
    Server        : mail.hep.ucl.ac.uk
    Path           : mail
    View          :

  If you have other folder COLLECTIONS, highlight each in turn,
  hitting return to get the edit  screen for the collection. Fill in the
  "Nickname", "Server" and "Path" with  the appropriate name. E.g. for a
  folder collection called "atlas":

    Nickname  : atlas
    Server    : mail.hep.ucl.ac.uk
    Path      : mail/atlas
    View      :

5) Transparent access to the mail server from pine via ssh:

  a) Generate a new ssh version2 key (if you haven't already done so) with:
ssh-keygen -t dsa
set a passphrase

b) Copy your public key (id_dsa.pub) to the mail server:
mkdir /unix/mail/abc/.ssh
cp ~abc/.ssh/id_dsa.pub /unix/mail/abc/.ssh/authorized_keys2

c) Tell pine to use ssh for remote shell access
edit .pinerc in your home directory. Find the line starting
  "rsh-path=" and change it to: "rsh-path=/usr/bin/ssh".

d) Type /usr/bin/ssh-add
You will then be prompted to type your ssh passphrase.

Gnome users: (not gnome failsafe though).
From your main menu, choose programs, settings, session,
session properties & startup programs.
Click on the startup programs tab.
Click add.
In the startup command box type /usr/bin/ssh-add
It's ok to leave the priority at 50.
click ok, then ok.
When you log out of gnome save session.
Every time you log into gnome you will now automatically be prompted to
type your ssh passphrase which will apply to, and allow transparent ssh
mailserver access for a pine session started in any subsequently opened windows.

6) Ask the software team to redirect your new mail / move your inbox to
the new mail server instead of ax8.

7) Setting where pine looks for your INBOX to the new mail server:

From the main pine screen, type S for SETUP, then C for Config, and
edit the inbox-path line to:
inbox-path = {mail.hep.ucl.ac.uk} INBOX
(highlight the line, hit return to go to edit mode, add the text, and
hit return again to accept the change. Finally, type E to exit Setup.