Moving to mailserv.uic.edu Email-Only Server

Mailserv is the ACCC's best and brightest email server; you do want to move your ACCC email account to mailserv.

• There's more space for your email on mailserv.
• The mailserv machines only do email, and therefore are only susceptible to email problems, unlike general purpose machine such as tigger and icarus.

Almost everything that you can or should do when you switch to mailserv is automated:

Use the ACCC Web utility to switch from ICARUS to mailserv

Use the ACCC Web utility to switch from TIGGER to mailserv

Worried about other stuff?

• You can keep your tigger or icarus account for your personal Web pages and computing.
  
  
• Do you use pine? You can continue to use pine to read your mailserv email. (And the Switch to Mailserv Utility will set it up for you if you want.)
  
  
• What about email that's sent directly to your tigger or icarus account? No problem, you can have it forwarded to mailserv. (The Switch to Mailserv Utility will do this too.)
  
  
• WebMail works with mailserv accounts.
  
  
• Your mailserv account will use your same netid as your tigger or icarus account.
  
  
• The mailserv uses the same ACCC Common password as tigger and icarus; you change it with the ACCC Password Change Utility Web page.
  
  
• You can not login to your mailserv account.
  • The biggest problem this causes is that you won't be able to use the ACCC backups to retrieve mail that you've accidentally deleted yourself. If you've deleted email from mailserv that wanted to keep, send email to consult@uic.edu immediately saying what mailbox the email was in and when it was last in it. You must do this as soon as possible, because we only keep backups for a limited number of days.
  • You also can not FTP files directly to and from mailserv yourself. Use the ACCC email tools to download entire mailserv mailboxes if you want to do that. Use the switch to mailserv Web utility to move mailboxes from tigger or icarus to mailserv.
    
    
• What about your existing email filters?
  • Because all ACCC email accounts use mail.uic.edu for the incoming and outgoing email server, you won't have to change anything.
  • If you use the ACCC email filter utilities, the Switch to Mailserv utility will move them for you.
    
    
• You can have the email sent to your yournetid@uic.edu email address delivered automatically to your mailserv account. Again, the Switch to Mailserv utility will set this up.
  
  
• If you don't switch your yournetid@uic.edu email address to mailserv, then you have to use WebMail or pine to read your mailserv email. To use a personal computer email program with a mailserv account, your yournetid@uic.edu email address must point to it.
  
  
• You can continue to use the ACCC email tools with mailserv to fix hung POP or IMAP sessions, set up filters or vacation replies, and so on.
  
  
• If all of your email list subscriptions use your yournetid@uic.edu address, you won't have to change them. If you're subscribed under your tigger or icarus address, you'll probably have to change your subscription(s) to be able to post to the list(s). You can use the ACCC Listserv Subscriber Utility to change the email address for your UIC list subscriptions.
  
  
• You can use your netid and your mailserv password to login to the ACCC dialin lines and all the UIC- or UofI-restricted Web pages.
  
  
• The Switch to Mailserv utility will copy your tigger or icarus mailboxes to mailserv if you want it too. It copies them; they will remain on tigger/icarus also.
  

• Check your email list subscriptions to make sure you're using your yournetid@uic.edu address not your tigger or icarus email address. If you are using your tigger or icarus email address, then you won't be able to post to many lists until you change your email address to the return address you're using on mailserv. You can use the ACCC Listserv Subscriber Utility to change the email address for your UIC list subscriptions.
  
  
• As always, turn on SSL encryption for your mailserv email when you read it with mail.uic.edu. (And when you use mail.uic.edu as your outgoing email server.)