E-mail

Basic facts:

• You must have a network account.
• Your e-mail address is:

  accountname@math.arizona.edu

  Note that your address is not “accountname@somemachinename.math.arizona.edu”. Misconfigured software might use an incorrect address like that. Whenever you try new software or change configurations, send yourself a test message to ensure that the delivered message has reasonable From and To addresses. Even if incorrectly-addressed mail is able to reach you today, there is no guarantee it will be able to reach you tomorrow. Periodic upgrades to our mail configuration are tested only against correctly-addressed mail.

How to:

• Configure your e-mail client
• Create address book entries
• Create e-mail distribution lists
• Import/export your webmail address book/calendar
• Forward your e-mail
• Turn on vacation responses

Sending and receiving e-mail:

• You can access your e-mail from anywhere in the world by pointing a web browser to http://webmail.math.arizona.edu/.
• Another easy way is to open a terminal window (or use SSH to connect to your account) and give the command mutt. (There is also pine, but its use is discouraged because some users have lost their e-mail with it.)
• However, whenever possible, we recommend running your own e-mail client (such as Mozilla Thunderbird) for the following reasons:
  • Less bandwidth is required, so your experience over wireless or dial-up connections will be better;
  • You can go online to download messages, then later, at your leisure when you may not be online, read the messages and even compose new messages, which will get sent the next time you go online;
  • Your own client may support various junk/spam filtering, helping you see only the messages you really want to see.
  To use your own client, you'll have to configure it the first time you use it. We have instructions on configuring your e-mail client.

[Coming eventually: e-mail server interconnect diagram.]