CS Email
A CS email account is associated with CS Unix account, and
your email address will look like username@cs.uh.edu. For instance, if your user
name is jsmith, your e-mail
address is jsmith@cs.uh.edu.
Check email from web browser
Check email from Outlook/Thurderbird/Evolution, etc
You need to configure your email client to access the department email systems. Our email services are separated out by whether a machine is inside or outside our firewall. If you are on our network (5th floor PGH), you are likely inside; else you are outside the firewall.
Inside the firewall:
SMTP server: smtp.cs.uh.edu
IMAP server: imap.cs.uh.edu
POP3 server: pop.cs.uh.edu
Outside the firewall:
SMTP server: smtps.cs.uh.edu (you must use
authentication and SSL in your email client)
IMAPS server: imap.cs.uh.edu (you must turn on SSL in your email client)
POP3S server: pop.cs.uh.edu (you must turn on SSL in your email client)
Check email from Linux/Unix terminal
If you are familiar with Unix environments, after you login to
your CS Unix account, you
can use the pine program to check your e-mail. If you are new to pine, use the
command man pine to bring up the manual/help page for pine.
Forward emails to another address
To do this, you must create a text file called .forward in your home directory (the leading dot is important, and it must be all lowercase). In this file, simply type the email address you would like to have your email forwarded to.
For more advanced requirements, the .forward file is a
comma-separated list of email addresses or programs (preceeded by a pipe symbol)
to forward email to. If you would like to retain a local copy of email in
addition to forwarding it, start the list with a backslash followed by your
username. e.g.
\userid, email@remote-server.com
To ensure that the mail server can read the .forward file, you must set
permissions by typing chmod a+r .forward; chmod a+x
Test by sending e-mail to your account; and checking that it shows up on your
other account.
