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| + | ====== Email ====== | ||
| - | **you can use a .forward file with an alternate email located in to to forward the email else-ware ** | + | **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 ** |
| - | **Squirrelmail (webmail) access is currently unavailable** | ||
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| - | Email is handled by 2 servers: | ||
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| - | ====== Servers ====== | ||
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| - | ===== postfix (SMTP)===== | ||
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| - | postfix is an SMTP server running on port 25 and 587. | ||
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| - | When a new email comes in postfix puts the mail in $HOME/Mailder/new | ||
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| - | ===== dovecot (IMAP)===== | ||
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| - | When a user goes to check their mail | ||
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| - | dovecot looks for email in $HOME/Maildir | ||
| ====== Checking and Sending Email ====== | ====== Checking and Sending Email ====== | ||
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| All ACM user get email accounts using standard ACM credentials | All ACM user get email accounts using standard ACM credentials | ||
| - | user@acm.cs.uic.edu | + | username@acm.cs.uic.edu |
| Users can use the following methods | Users can use the following methods | ||
| - A command line mail client run on the acm.cs.uic.edu server | - 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) | + | - 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 | - ACM webmail access at https://acm.cs.uic.edu/webmail | ||
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| Server = acm.cs.uic.edu | Server = acm.cs.uic.edu | ||
| Port = 143 | Port = 143 | ||
| - | Security = STARTTLS | + | Security = STARTTLS (also called TLS) |
| - | Authentication Method: Normal Password | + | Authentication Method: Normal Password (also called Plain or Plain Text) |
| </code> | </code> | ||
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| Server = acm.cs.uic.edu | Server = acm.cs.uic.edu | ||
| Port = 587 | Port = 587 | ||
| - | Security = STARTTLS | + | Security = STARTTLS (also called TLS) |
| - | Authentication Method: Normal Password | + | Authentication Method: Normal Password (also called Plain or Plain Text) |
| </code> | </code> | ||
| - | Alternatively, SIG-SysAdmin(clee231) has been working on setting up a better online imap email client. Check it out here: http://brink.cs.uic.edu/email | + | |
| + | Email is handled by 2 servers: | ||
| + | |||
| + | ====== Servers ====== | ||
| + | |||
| + | ===== postfix (SMTP)===== | ||
| + | |||
| + | postfix is an SMTP server running on port 25 and 587. | ||
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| + | 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 | ||
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| + | When a user goes to check their mail | ||
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| + | dovecot looks for email in $HOME/Maildir | ||
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| + | ====== Resources ====== | ||
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| + | [[http://books.google.com/books?id=0pDFcu6QhY4C&num=13|Linux E-mail | ||
| + | ]] | ||
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| + | [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dovecot]] | ||
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