E-Mail

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Anyone with a Linux row account has a cs.mtsu.edu mail account. If my Linux row username is janedoe, then my email address would be janedoe@cs.mtsu.edu.

1 Accessing
- 1.1 Webmail
- 1.2 IMAP
2 Tips & Tricks

Accessing

Webmail

Most people will want to use webmail to check their account. Go to the following address to check your mail:

http://mail.cs.mtsu.edu

Now you will be presented with a log in screen:

Enter your cs domain username (usually the same as your pipeline username) and password.

You will then be logged in and can view your mail.

IMAP

IMAP allows you to view and control your mailbox remotely. Instead of downloading your mail to your local computer, the mail stays on the remote server and shows it to you as if it were on your computer locally. This requires a constant internet connection while you are working with your mailbox, so if you are on dialup, this might cause problems.

We offer SSL (Secure Socket Layer) connections for secure transfer of mails.

Mac/Mail.app

Launch Mail.app by either clicking on the Mail icon in the dock or by double-clicking on its icon in the Applications folder. Go to Mail -> Preferences. Select Accounts.

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Click on Create Account (+ sign located lower left of window).

Enter your settings.

Account Type: 
  Select IMAP Account

Description: 
  Name your account something descriptive such as "Linux Account".

Email Address: 
  your_username@cs.mtsu.edu
  This is the address that your contacts' email program will reply to your messages. 

Full Name 
   Enter your full name as you would like it to appear on the messages that you send.

Incoming Mail Server: 
   This is the cs department's incoming server.
   This field should be set to imap.cs.mtsu.edu

User name:
   Your domain account username with @cs.mtsu.edu after it.  This tends to be the same as your pipeline username.

Outgoing Mail Server: 
   This is the cs department's outgoing server.
   Click on the double up and down arrows and select Add Server..... 

       

   For Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.cs.mtsu.edu
   Check the Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) box. 
   Set Authentication to "Password". Then enter your username@cs.mtsu.edu and password
   Click OK

Click the Advanced tab

Make sure the following boxes are checked:

Enable this account
Include this account when checking for new mail
Use SSL Note: make sure the port is set to 993

Thunderbird

Thunderbird is part of the Mozilla Foundation family of open source projects. It runs on all operating systems and can be downloaded here:

http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

Open up Thunderbird. Then click on Edit in the menubar. Select Account Settings. Click on the Add Account button to open the Account Wizard. The Account Wizard will ask you what kind of account you would like to create. Choose Email account then click Next. The next page will ask you for your full name and email address. The email address you enter here will be the address that other reply to. To be safe enter your cs domain account:

your_username@cs.mtsu.edu

The next page titled Server Information asks for the type of connection you want to use and the location of the incoming and outgoing servers. Choose IMAP and enter imap.cs.mtsu.edu for incoming server and smtp.cs.mtsu.edu for outgoing server. Click Finish.

Now choose Server Settings under your_username@cs.mtsu.edu. Make sure under Security Settings you have TLS checked. Then click OK.

Outlook Express

Start up Outlook Express. In the menubar, click Tools and then select Accounts. A window similar to this one will appear:

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Select Add then Mail A window will appear asking you for you Display Name. This is whatever your friends call you. Enter your name and then click Next. The next page is asking you for your email address. This is the address others will use to reply to your mails. To be safe, enter your cs domain address:

your_username@cs.mtsu.edu

The next window asks you what type of server the mail server is and where the incoming and outgoing servers are located. Select IMAP for the server type and enter this address for incoming:

imap.cs.mtsu.edu

and this for outgoing:

smtp.cs.mtsu.edu

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Click Next. The next page asks you for your Account Name (username) and password. Enter them. They usually are the same as your pipeline username and password. Click Next and then Finish.

In the Internet Accounts window, click the Mail tab. Now select the account you just created and click properties. Go to the Advanced tab and check the boxes that are labeled "This server requires a secure connection {SSL}" for both incoming and outgoing servers. Then click close.

Tips & Tricks

Forwarding

You can forward all mail sent to your @cs.mtsu.edu account to other email addresses if you'd like. This way, all of your mail can go to one place. First, log into through the webmail interface. Then click on the "Preferences" tab and then the "Mail" tab.

Enter whatever address you would like into the Forward a copy to field.

Spam

How To Get Rid Of It

We have strict spam filters in place on our mail servers. However it can't catch all spam. Be sure and move spam messages to the Junk folder. It takes time but after you tag a few hundred messages as spam, it will have enough to learn from and you will no longer receive any spam.

Where Caught Spam Goes

Spam that is caught by the spam filter is sent to your Junk folder. Be sure to check there every once and a while for valid mail that was caught as spam. Spam messages will have a ***SPAM*** in the subject line.

Moving mail to zimbra

Web program

We offer a web tool to help you transfer your emails from another server to ours. Please visit Migrate and fill out the information. For example, if you are transferring mail from torvalds.cs.mtsu.edu to our new email server, enter the following for IMAP server to migrate mail from:

torvalds.cs.mtsu.edu

Enter your torvalds email username and password for Username of server to migrate from and Password of server to migrate from

Enter the same username and password for Computer Science Department username and Computer Science Department password

Then hit send and wait. The transfer takes a very long time. Depending on how much mail you need to transfer, your browser could quit before the program is finished running. Do not worry, the program runs in the background till the transfer is complete. Do not push stop or reload on your browser and do not hit Send more than once.

Manually from unix command line

If your current email server allows for IMAP connections, you can move all your mail from your old server to the computer science department's mail server. First log into Linux_row

Create a file called password1 and put your password for your current mail server into it. Example:

echo "my_yahoo_password" >> password1

Then create a file called password2 and put your CS domain password into it.

echo "my_mail_password" >> password2

Then use the imapsync command to migrate from one server to another.

imapsync --host1 torvalds.cs.mtsu.edu --user1 janedoe --passfile1 password1 \
    --host2 imap.cs.mtsu.edu --user2 janedoe@cs.mtsu.edu/tb --passfile2 password2

Once the command finishes. Delete the password files.

rm password1 password2

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