E-mail

Access

• 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

Redirects

• 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

Spam and Cautions

• Information on the department's SPAM filtering techniques including using Bayesain filtering via our LearnSpam System
• Information on the OIT's mail gateway quarantine Proofpoint: Quarantined messages
• 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.

Backups

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

Miscellaneous

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