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   Accessing the Mount Holyoke College Network and Hosts from off campus
           Michael A. Crowley,          November 1997, Revised June 2006
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Access to your email and filespaces from the Internet may be
done in several ways.

  1.  Email access
      *  using IMAP using desktop email clients such as Thunderbird
      *  using the web using Horde's IMP at: 
         http://www.mtholyoke.edu/go/email    or
         http://webmail.mtholyoke.edu
      *  using direct shell login with ssh and the use of the pine email client

  2.  File transfers
      *  using sftp or scp
      *  ftp is being phased out and will require special permissions 
         and server-side setup.

The details for setting up these are provided below.
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Email access using IMAP
  Desktop email clients, such as Mozilla's Thunderbird, have basic IMAP
  setup similarities.  Thunderbird may be obtained at
     http://www.mozilla.com/
  The settings for an account should include:
     *  IMAP mail server:   
        +  The server name is:  mail.mtholyoke.edu
        +  Use SSL for a secure connection.  
	   This uses port 993 instead of 143.
        +  For an IMAP server directory, specify:  mail
     *  Outgoing SMTP server
        +  The server name is:  smtp.mtholyoke.edu
	+  If you are connecting from on-campus, that is all you need
	   to do, but if you are connecting from off-campus, you have 
	   two choices (the second is preferred):
	   1.  Set the SMTP server to one provided by your ISP.
	   2.  To use smtp.mtholyoke.edu from off campus, you must
	       *  Provide your username for the smtp connection
	       *  Set the secure connection to:  TLS
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Email access using Horde's IMP webmail
  This only requires going to the web site at:
       http://www.mtholyoke.edu/go/email
  or:  http://webmail.mtholyoke.edu
  These will both change to a secure connection (https).
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Email access using direct shell login with ssh
  Like ftp, telnet is being phased out in favor of a secure connection.
  For Windows, we would recommend obtaining putty as an ssh client at
     http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
     Connect to mhc.mtholyoke.edu
  For a Macintosh running OSX, using the terminal program at the
     Macintosh terminal prompt, enter:  ssh your_username@mhc.mtholyoke.edu
  Using these ssh clients is like using telnet, but the connection is
  secure.  Simply log into mhc.mtholyoke.edu and use "pine" for fast 
  and basic email.
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File transfers using sftp
  With an sftp client, connect to:  mhc.mtholyoke.edu
  For Windows computers, we recommend WinSCP found at:
     http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

  Locating your various filespaces using an sftp client involves
  going to certain disk locations.  WinSCP has a facility for storing
  previous locations so that you can easily find them.  Here are
  some standard locations you might be interested in:
    HOME         Your HOME directory is the disk space where you log in.
                 Do not change the files beginning with a dot.
                 Your HOME directory contains a "mail" directory where saved
	         email is kept.
    classwork    Current students have a classwork area.  It may be accessed
                 from the HOME directory by simply going into the classwork
		 directory.
    Personal web The personal webspace is in:   
                    /world/yourusername
    classweb     Current students have space for current web assignments.
                 This may be reached at:   
                    /world/yourusername/classweb
    College web  The College webspace is at:
                    /web
                 Common subdirectories in the College webspace are:
                    /web/acad         Academic departments
		    /web/offices      Administrative offices
		    /web/org          Student organizations
    Webcourses   Webspace is provided to faculty at:
                    /web/courses
    Courses      Disk space for course materials that are not served
                 by the web are provided to faculty at:
		    /campus/courses
    Workgroups   The most commonly accessed workgroup area is also known
                 by the Windows drive mapping:   \\ambr\depts
                 Using an sftp client, you would go to:
		    /workgroups/depts
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Other information:
    http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/network/doc/accountspace.txt
    http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/network/doc/filespace.txt
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