Email stuff - SpamAssassin, Client Notes, Mailing Lists, etc.

Standard Setup

In this section, we will try to describe how email is typically setup for the following groups of users:

• StandardEmailforGrads - typical email setup for Grad Students
• StandardEmailforFaculty - typical email setup for Faculty
• StandardEmailforStaff - typical email setup for Staff
• StandardEmailforUndergrads - typical email setup for Undergraduate students

Troubleshooting

• EmailTroubleshooting - dealing with problems on mail.cs
• ThunderbirdEmailTroubleshooting - dealing with Thunderbird email problems

IST's Exchange Service - Connect

• MovingToConnect - notes on creating a Connect account and migrating email to the IST Exchange Server
• MaildirToConnect - notes to specifically copy mail to a Connect account

Handling Spam

• HandlingSpam - Spam Configuration, Resources, FAQ documents and Examples
• GreyListing - Notes on what it is and how to configure it

Thunderbird - Using/Configuring/Migration

• ThunderBird - Notes on Thunderbird, Documentation, migration notes, tuning, etc
• OutlookToThunderbird : What to do if you have funny problems converting over
• ThunderBirdWebMail - Notes on using various webmail clients with Thunderbird
• ThunderbirdImapFolders - Notes on using Subfolders with IMAP
• Adding UWDir as an LDAP address book in Thunderbird
• ThunderbirdConnectionTimeout - how to adjust Thunderbird to not give up after 1 minute!
• ThunderbirdTuning - notes on configuring Thunderbird when migrating folders
• ThunderbirdExchangeCalendar - How to configure Thunderbird to use the UWaterloo Exchange calendar system (connect)

Microsoft Outlook - Using/Configuring/Migration

• OutlookToThunderbird : What to do if you have funny problems converting over
• Import your messages and address book from Eudora 6.x
• Configuring Outlook mail account for CS mail service
• MigrateThunderbirdAddressBookToOutlook - notes on migrating a Thunderbird address book to outlook

Apple Mail

• WatIAMforMailAndAddressBookviaLDAP - integrate WatIAM with Mail and Address Book via LDAP

Email and Address Book File Locations

• See FileLocationsEmailAddressBook

Mailing lists

• MailManCSlists - (replaces obsolescent SCSMailingLists)
• MailManManagement - Notes on administering a Mailman list
  • MailingListCreation - How to create an IST Mailman mailing list
  • MoveMailmanList - Notes on moving a mailman list to another server - OBSOLETE
• CscfUrgentConfiguration - How the cscf-urgent mailing list is configured.
• EmailAliases - you can have sponsored email aliases sending to multiple accounts, sort of a mini-mailing list

General email configuration and management

• EmailOffCampus - Configuration for mail reading and sending while off campus
• EmailAliases - notes on creating, updating and managing email aliases
• EmailPostfixSetup - notes on configuring Postfix to allow a system to send mail through a relay
• MovingEmail - notes and procedures on moving email from one system to another, eg: using mailutil
• EmailForwardingM365 - notes on setting up email forwarding for M365 accounts

Information About CS Email Directions

• EmailDirections - planning document for CS email direction proposals

Working with Blackberries

Some of our clients are beginning to use Blackberries for their email, we need to investigate the issues

• Daves Blackberry Experiments - Dave is our Blackberry Guinea Pig - here are his notes

Resources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam

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