8. E-Mail

When an account at SISSA is opened for you, you are given an e-mail address your-name@sissa.it. Some sectors may provide you with a sector e-mail address like your-name@sector.sissa.it. SMTP and POP services are provided by mail.sissa.it, IMAP service is provided by imap.sissa.it.

8.1 Reading and sending mail in text mode

The suggested mail program for text mode is pine. It features an intuitive interface, with command help always available on-screen. While running pine will check for new incoming mail at regular intervals. A large help file is provided hitting the <?> key at the startup screen of pine. Pine folders are compatible with webmail. Pine will read HTML mail and run external «helpers» to display attachments.

8.2 Reading and sending mail with X

Several mail programs are available for graphical environments. The Netscape Communicator (or Mozilla) browser has an internal mailer; KMail is the KDE mail program, while recent Gnome installations provide Ximian Evolution. All of these have on-line help available.

8.3 Webmail

A webmail interface is available at https://webmail.sissa.it. This interface allows you to access your mailbox from anywhere in the world with a web browser, presenting a consistent view of all your mail folders (the folder structure managed by the webmail system is compatible with the one generated by pine). The webmail interface already allows you to set up mail filters for incoming mail and to manage your address book, with import and export of contact list from and to popular formats. We are in the process of extending the webmail interface with a calendar, a task list/todo manager and mail auto-reply and forwarding. For these reasons webmail will be the suggested way to read and write mail at SISSA.

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8.4 SpamAssassin

TBD