Your NetGate Premier service allows you to send and receive mail using either UNIX shell or POP based mail clients. All mail addressed to your account at NetGate should be of the form:

username@netgate.net

where username is the name you received when you signed up. This is the e-mail address you will want to give to people who want to send you mail. All mail addressed to "username@netgate.net" is stored on the same host where your shell account and web site reside. This allows you to use your choice of UNIX or POP based mail clients to read your mail.

POP Based Mail

POP based mail clients are very easy to configure and use and usually offer a very nice graphical user interface. There are many excellent POP based mail clients available free of charge on the net. Most commercial Internet access software also includes a POP mail client. If you need a recommendation please let us know.

Since each mail program is slightly different it's difficult for us to give you detailed configuration information. All POP mail clients will require you to set several configuration options before you will be able to send or receive mail. Below is a listing of all known configuration options needed to configure all POP based mail clients.

POP Account	username@servername.netgate.net
POP or POP3 Server	servername.netgate.net
SMTP Server	smtp.netgate.net
Return or Reply Address	username@netgate.net

Please send an e-mail to support@netgate.net if you have forgotten your servername.

Shell Based Mail

If you would like to use a shell based mail tool (pine, elm, or mail) please use a Telnet application to establish a terminal session with the host "servername.netgate.net" where servername is the name of the host provided to you when you signed up. Login to the UNIX shell account using your username and password. You can use "man" command to learn more about each of the shell based mailers, for example "man pine" to learn more about pine.

Mail Forwarding

Your shell account also allow you to control the forwarding of mail via the ".forward" (stored in your home directory) file. To forward your mail to your mail account at work your ".forward" file would contain a single line such as:

joe@url.com

Having the above line in your ".forward" file would cause all mail sent to joe@netgate.net to be forwarded to joe@url.com.