Email Client Software
Web-based Email Client Software
- Print to HP4M-Faner2102 or wps in Computer Lab
Email Client Software on Windows
The system administration group of Computer Science Department officially provides technical support for Microsoft Outlook Express.
Everytime an user logs on to a lab PC in CS department, an in-house developed utility, if clicking on OK, will automatically initialize the email settings in Outlook Express for him/her, including mail servers, account names... , etc. The Personal Message Store of Outlook Express will be set to that user's Windows home directory which is located on Drive M (was on Drive H), this will provide maximum security and centralized management of email. The screen shot of the utility is shown below
See the following for detailed setting information:
| Email Application | Outlook Express |
| Personal Message Store |
M:\EMAIL |
| Incoming server(POP3) | csmail.cs.siu.edu |
| Outgoing Server(SMTP) | saluki-mailhub.siu.edu |
| Email Account | your Linux login id (if you have one) |
| Email Password | your Linux login account's password |
| Options | (1)
Leave the email on server (2) Remove emails on server after 7 days (3) Delete mails from the server when they are deleted from the "Deleted Items" folder |
FAQ
If you would like to check and send email on Sun workstations, the recommended mailtool is dtmail. To use dtmail,
dtmail is a GUI software, it only runs under GUI environment. If you would like check email through character-based application such as Telnet, you can use mail or mailx, please check the man page of those two Solaris applications for more help. pine and elm are better than mail and mailx in terms of ease of use, they also available on Solaris and welcome to use if you know how to configure them.
Please contact unix@cs.siu.edu if you have any questions.