Using the CoCoBoard

This page contains information about how to post a CoCoBoard server, how to remove your post, and additional information about MIME, the Internet Mail Standard.

Posting a Note

Posting a note to the CoCoBoard is as simple as sending email. You only need know two items; the EMail address of the Server, and the project to which you wish to post your note. Knowing this, send a mail to that address, and somewhere in your mail, include alone on a line Project ProjectID. For instance, to post a message to the demo page on jean-luc, you would compose a mail as follows:

TO: projects@jean-luc.ncsa.uiuc.edu
SUBJECT: I am postin an item

project demo

This is my useful text which I wish to post

For examples of how you can make your posts more interesting, see the CoCoBoard User Examples page, where the authors have posted instructional examples.

Removing a Post

Each post will have three links at the bottom. A link to your CoCoBoard Top Projects Page, a link to this documentation page, and a link to information on removing your post. To remove your post, simply copy the information from the removal page into another piece of mail to the server, and send it. Note that the removal command must come from the same email address as the original note. You will receive comfirmation of the success or failure of your removal command.

MIME

MIME is an internet mail standard for sending images, sounds, video, multi-part text messages, and many other sorts of rich email. MIME is what allows us to post images to the CoCoBoard pages which you see in the demos.

Many mailers, when properly installed, support MIME. Notably, Eudora (in the newest releases), ZMail, exmh, and Pine all either do or can be configured to support MIME. If you are uncertain of the mime capabilities at your site, you should contact your local sysadmin. The authors of the CoCoBoard software cannot help you install a MIME compliant mailer on your system.

If you have a MIME compilant mailer, you can send images, sounds, movies, and PS documents to a CoCoBoard server simply by sending a valid MIME attachment. This has been tested with Eudora, Zmail, and exmh; All three work well.

HELP!

If you need help using the CoCoBoard, send mail to the email address of the server with the subject "help". You will get an automated reply with the name of the server maintainer. You should contact that maintainer with questions about using the Server. Please do not contact the authors of this software directly; It is unlikely we will have the time or the ability to help you. Rather, please contact your local maintainer, and they will contact us if needs be.

I still need more information

Well, you are a little out of luck currently. Try contacting the maintainer of your server (see above to find out who this is). We are expanding the documentation on this software daily, and hope to have a FAQ soon, but if you can't find the information you need here, and your maintainer can't answer the question for you, your question will have to go unanswered. If it is terribly urgent or important, please ask your site maintainer to contact us, and we will try and get an answer to you.