====== Email ======

**you can use a [[http://www.feep.net/sendmail/tutorial/intro/forward.html|.forward file]] in your home directory with an alternate email located in to to forward the email else-ware **


====== Checking and Sending Email ======

All ACM user get email accounts using standard ACM credentials

username@acm.cs.uic.edu

Users can use the following methods

  - A command line mail client run on the acm.cs.uic.edu server
  - A standard mail client configured for IMAP and SMTP (ie thuderbird/phone mail app/etc)
  - ACM webmail access at https://acm.cs.uic.edu/webmail

===== Mail Client Configuration =====

IMAP Settings

<code>
Server = acm.cs.uic.edu
Port = 143
Security = STARTTLS (also called TLS)
Authentication Method: Normal Password (also called Plain or Plain Text)
</code>

SMTP Settings

<code>
Server = acm.cs.uic.edu
Port = 587
Security = STARTTLS (also called TLS)
Authentication Method: Normal Password (also called Plain or Plain Text)
</code>


Email is handled by 2 servers:

====== Servers ======

===== postfix (SMTP)=====

postfix is an SMTP server running on port 25 and 587.

When a new email comes in postfix puts the mail in $HOME/Mailder/new

===== dovecot (IMAP)=====

dovecot is an IMAP server running on port 143 and 993

When a user goes to check their mail

dovecot looks for email in $HOME/Maildir

====== Resources ======

[[http://books.google.com/books?id=0pDFcu6QhY4C&num=13|Linux E-mail
 ]]

[[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dovecot]]