Note: Our web-based e-mail clients are listed below. 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 slower connections (dial-up, wireless, cell phone, etc.) 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;
- Many clients (including Thunderbird) support various junk/spam filtering, helping you see only the messages you really want to see.
We have information on how to configure your e-mail client.
Available web-based e-mail clients
When traveling or using someone else's computer, running your own e-mail client (as suggested above) may not be feasible; for those situations, we offer the following web-based e-mail clients. We view these web-based clients as a last-resort mechanism to access your e-mail. You'll have a better e-mail experience by instead running your own e-mail client, as described above.
Squirrelmail (squirrelmail.math.arizona.edu) [Fast]
Simple and snappy, this spartan web-based client gets the job done. It supports a personal address book and also searches through the shared math department e-mail directory. There is no calendar. You cannot bulk import or export your personal address book.
Horde3/IMP4 (horde3.math.arizona.edu) [Slow]
Full of features but quite sluggish and perhaps too complicated, this fancy web-based client supports calendars and exportable address books, among other things. This product is under active development; consequently, the user interface and overall behavior does change from time to time as security updates and code patches are applied. [We provide this client for two reasons: (1) Some users are used to it and want to keep using it. (2) In general it is useful to have a second web-based e-mail client available for those times, such as during upgrades, when Squirrelmail might be unavailable.]
