If you are in one of the following units, you may have to take additional steps. Follow the links below for unit-specific email instructions: Users of these departmental mail servers are encouraged to set the mail forwarding feature for either their standard UVM email address or their departmental address. By doing so, you will be able to receive official University communications addressed to your standard UVM address. For more information on mail forwarding and vacation messages follow the "to-do" links at right.
You do not have to request a Network ID. If you are a University affiliate, one has been created for you already. To activate your account, go to http://www.uvm.edu/account/ and follow the directions at that site.
Because people have many different working styles, ETS supports several methods for checking email at UVM:
WebMail
UVM's WebMail is available from any Internet-connected computer in the
world - just go to https://webmail.uvm.edu/
in your web browser. Best of all, WebMail requires no
configuration; just go to the site and log in! Webmail is a
secure and easy to
use way to check your email from anywhere, but it is not as fast and
feature rich as the alternatives. WebMail requires a web browser,
such as Netscape or Internet Explorer.
More about UVM WebMail...
Thunderbird Mail (Mozilla)
Available for almost every Windows, Macintosh and UNIX operating
system, Thunderbird is the current leader in Windows Desktop email clients at
UVM a feature-rich program. Thunderbird also works as a news group reader.
Adobe PDF on how to
configure Mozilla Thunder bird with your UVM email. Also,
How to create sub-folders in Thunderbird
Apple Mail
Apple Mail is the pre-installed mail package for OS 10.1 and
higher.
This version of Apple Mail supports mail filtering and contains a full
featured message search engine. Please note, this is not the same
program
as the Mail option in Mac OS 9 and lower, which actually launches
Outlook
Express!
More about Apple Mail
Note: this is different from Microsoft Outlook,
which is only supported by the College of Medicine and the Business
School.
Microsoft Entourage (which is bundled with Microsoft Office for the
Macintosh) has many features similar to Outlook Express for Macintosh.
ETS offers
support for Entourage only to the extent that its features are the same
as those in Outlook Express.
More about
Outlook Express...
Pine
Pine is available from almost any Internet-connected computer in
the world. Pine is a text-only program (no mouse, text-only
menus),
but it is very quick, secure, and powerful. You do not install
Pine on your computer, instead you access it though a terminal
emulation
program. You will need to download and install an SSH (Secure
Shell)
program to use Pine on Zoo.uvm.edu. SSH software is pre-installed
on machines purchased through the Depot, or you can download it from ETS's software download site.
You also can use Pine to read news groups.
More about Pine...
You can set up filters for your UVM email account. Filters allow you to have mail sorted into separate boxes based on sender, size, or subject.
You can set up forwarding on your UVM email account. When forwarding has been set, all mail addressed to your standard UVM email address will be forwarded to a different account. This is useful if you prefer to use an account on a UVM division's or college's server for your primary email, or if you want another person to receive your mail while you are away.
You can set up Vacation notification to alert those sending mail to you that you are on vacation or otherwise unavailable.
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