E-mail
Addresses
All St. Edward's
University faculty, staff and students have a St.
Edward's e-mail account. Use the online directory to
find a specific e-mail address. As of 5/21/06 all
faculty, staff and students will use the e-mail address
login@stedwards.edu.
E-mail sent to addresses @admin.stedwards.edu or @acad.stedwards.edu
will continue to be automatically delivered to the
new @stedwards.edu addresses.
Web Mail
Effective May 18th, 2008 Squirrel Webmail will no longer be available. Security issues with Squirrel Webmail necessitate its removal. Zimbra Webmail now has a "Standard (HTML)" version that works on slower connections and on Firefox, IE and Safari 3.0. Zimbra Standard will not work on versions of Safari before 3.0.
- Web
mail may be accessed via Zimbra
Webmail or Zimbra Webmail Standard.
- Using
Zimbra
- Zimbra Webmail Standard is a lighter version that will work on slow connections and most web browsers. You can select the Standard (HTML) version from the drop down menu below the Log In button.
POP Mail
- Incoming e-mail using POP settings (Eudora,
Outlook, Mac Mail, Thunderbird) uses Secure POP
settings. Outgoing e-mail will use an Authenticated
SMTP server. Instructions for setting up an e-mail
application to use Secure POP and Authenticated
SMTP server.
CARS Mail
- Pine is a text-based e-mail
application available in CARS/Jenzabar-CX.
Forwarding E-mail: You
may also configure your SEU account to forward your
SEU e-mail to another e-mail account. When forwarding
is started the email retention time on the St. Edward's
server is changed to 30 days. This means that only
messages from the last 30 days will be retained on
the SEU server.
E-mail Retention: E-mail
that is not forwarded is stored on the mail server
for 365 days. Mail older than 365 days will be deleted.
E-mail Quotas: Mail left on the
server may not exceed the following quotas:
- Students: 100 MB
- Faculty and Staff: 200 MB
Once your quota has been exceeded mail sent to your
account will be returned to the sender with a message
that the recipients mail box is over quota. You can
check your quota by logging into Zimbra WebMail. The
quota status bar isin the upper righthand corner. Instructions
for removing mail from the server including setting
up Eudora and Outlook to remove mail from the server.
Attachments: The file
size limit for attachments is 10 MB. In addition
attachments with extensions commonly used to convey
viruses are automatically stripped from incoming or
outgoing e-mails. These include attachments with the
extensions .zip, .exe. and .mdb. See E-mail
Safety for a complete list of restricted attachment
extensions.
Spam filtering: St.
Edward's has implemented a spam filtering
application, CanIt. For more information on spam filtering
and instructions on setting up e-mail filters for supported
e-mail applications see Spam
Filtering at St. Edward's University.
Restricted Aliases and E-Newsletters :
Aliases or email lists for specific groups of students
are available to faculty and staff with permission.
See the Restricted
Alias and E-Newsletters section
for instructions and available aliases. Aliases are
also automatically created for every EdShare "share" created
by faculty or staff. Class
aliases are also created
for every class.
E-mail Safety: All e-mail on St. Edward's servers
is scanned for attachments which might contain viruses
and all university owned computers and all student
computers have access to free virus protection. However,
new ways of infiltrating your computer's defenses are
created everyday. For more information on protecting
your computer and your privacy from "phishing", viruses
and worms see E-mail
Safety.
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