CSL: FAQs and Other Info

FAQs

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If you have any comments, corrections, or suggestions, please contact the Lab Staff.

Read your e-mail using the department's web-based e-mail client, Webmail
Configure your e-mail client to send and receive e-mail from locations outside the department

Guide for users wishing to set up an automatic response to your department e-mail, using the vacation program
Information about managing mailing lists within the department, including the user's and administrator's guide to the Majordomo mailing list software
Options for forwarding your department e-mail to other addresses

Information on the department's SPAM filtering techniques including using Bayesain filtering via our LearnSpam System
Preventing E-mail Address Harvesting by obscurring e-mail addresses on the web
Users are cautioned to be aware of e-mails purporting to come from department or university administrators, directing users to open attachments or to respond with personal information such as passwords; C.S. Lab staff and OIT will never ask you to provide your password via e-mail.

Learn about the department's e-mail Inbox Mirror, which provides online backups (called snapshots) of your mail inbox

See the Procmail Log File Rotation page for an explanation of why and how we rotate these log files