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In this document:
E-mail Disk Quotas
SPAM Blocking
"Vacation" Messages
Forwarding your E-mail: No more .forward files
Access Control Lists currently disabled
Other Documents:
Using Webmail Direct
Welcome to Mirapoint: UD's New E-mail
System
IT Help Center
Last Updated: 2/7/05
Copyright © 2005
University of Delaware
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E-mail Disk Quotas
- Any new e-mail sent to you while your e-mail has exceeded
your e-mail disk quota will be rejected and returned to its
sender.
- More disk space has been allocated for each
e-mail account on the new Mirapoint e-mail system. Each user will have at least 30M of
space for his or her e-mail.
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With this increased disk space comes a change in the way e-mail
quotas are calculated.
Messages in your Inbox and all other saved messages
count towards your e-mail disk quota.
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The easiest way to monitor your e-mail disk quota is to use
Webmail Direct,
the Mirapoint webmail client.
Webmail Direct always displays
how much disk space you are using at the top of any e-mail
folder index
(including the index for your Inbox).
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SPAM Blocking
- Mirapoint's Webmail Direct junk mail filtering will, for
the most part, replace the CanIt SPAM trap system. Users of all
e-mail programs
can use
Webmail Direct to set up this feature. You can then use Webmail
Direct (or any other e-mail client) to review the contents of
your Junk Mail folder.
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If you were using CanIt to manage your unsolicited e-mail, and
if you had created lists of allowed and disallowed senders and
sites, those lists will automatically be moved into Webmail
Direct's Whitelist and Blocklist for your account.
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If you choose to use Webmail Direct's junk mail filtering, log in to
Webmail Direct, and
follow
these directions to set
up the Mirapoint junk mail filter.
If you choose this option,
potential SPAM is moved to a Junk Mail folder on UD's new e-mail
system. Junk mail is held
for 30 days, unless you delete the messages sooner than that.
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If you opt to use the Webmail Direct junk mail filter, you
must check your Junk Mail folder often so as not
to miss important
messages that have been mis-identified as potential SPAM.
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Eventhough you need to use Webmail Direct to set up the
Mirapoint junk mail filter, you can check the Junk Mail
folder in Webmail Direct or any other e-mail client that
is properly configured.
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"Vacation" Messages
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After your account has been moved to the new system, you will
not be able to use the UNIX vacation command to set an
"away message."
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Users of all e-mail programs can use Webmail Direct to set an "Automatic Reply."
- Login to Webmail Direct at
http://mail.udel.edu
- Select Options from the main menu (to the left of
your screen).
- Select Automatic Reply from the Access Control tool
list (towards the top of your screen).
- Type an appropriate subject and message in the text boxes
provided.
- Click Start.
- Select Logout from the main menu.
- When you return to campus, login to Webmail Direct, select
Options, and select Automatic Reply. On the screen
that displays your automatic reply, click Stop. You can
then read your e-mail in Webmail Direct or select Logout.
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Caution: Because it sends responses to your e-mail that, in
essence, confirm the validity of your e-mail address, using the
Automatic Reply option can increase the amount of unsolicited e-mail
(SPAM) your account receives.
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Forwarding your E-mail: No more .forward
files
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If you have forwarded your UD e-mail to another Internet Service
Provider (ISP) or to another server on the UD campus, the forwarding will continue to work; however, all future
changes to
forwarding must be done at
http://www.udel.edu/network
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After your e-mail account has been moved to the new system, .forward
files on the central UNIX system will no longer be functional.
However, if you had your e-mail forwarded to another ISP using a
.forward file, that forwarding information was moved to the new
e-mail system.
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Access Control Lists Currently Disabled
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The Webmail Direct Access Control List feature is currently
disabled.
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When it is enabled, it will allow you to give limited access to
some of your e-mail folders to another user.
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