CSS: Email Information - College of Engineering, The University of Iowa

Email Announcements
11/09	Must use secure connection to read email.
10/09	New mail quotas: students - 500 MB; faculty staff - 1 GB
7/07	Must use mail.engineering.uiowa.edu for incoming and outgoing server name.
6/07	Office 2007, including Outlook 2007, installed.
10/06	New handout on purging email: Thunderbird.
5/06	Mail with a spam score of 20 or greater automatically goes to the Trash.
3/06	Email messages including attachments can be as large as 30MB .
7/05	Junk, Deleted Items folders cleaned out after 7 days.
6/05	Thunderbird is the default email client program.
Email policies Email FAQ

Email @ Engineering has information about college email addresses and accounts, the mail servers, quotas, security, and special mail folders at the College of Engineering.

Email Clients

Introduction to available email clients.
Thunderbird

Configuring Thunderbird
Using Thunderbird Mail
Filtering Email
Purge Deleted Mail

Webmail

Launch Webmail
Webmail News and Information
Using Webmail
Filtering Email
Purge Deleted Mail
Login Troubleshooting

Outlook

Configuring Outlook
Using Outlook 2007 and OWA

Mail Tools, Spam, and Email Viruses

Mailbox clogged with spam? Avoid reading most of it.

Dealing with viruses. Many viruses are spread via email attachments.

Do you get mail at an ITS account (webmail.uiowa.edu, blue, Outlook/Exchange)? Read about the ITS anti-spam service.

Use the Account Management tools to check mail quota, set a vacation (auto-reply) message, and forward email.

Use the password tool to change or reset your password.

updated: 17 November 2009