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E-mail & Computing
Email

Email and Electronic Communications

CUIT (Columbia University Information Technology) provides email service to the Columbia University community of students, faculty and staff. The service includes automatic backups of mail stored on our servers, support for secure protocols for sending and retrieving mail, and extensive spam-filtering.

CUIT runs two mail systems: the free Cyrus system for all faculty, staff, and students, and a fee-based Microsoft Exchange mail system for use mainly by administrative staff.

CYRUS

The Cyrus Mail system stores mailboxes and provides for access using internet standards IMAP and POP. Users can access their mail with almost any mail program, including CubMail (web-based), Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, or Pine. Use your UNI and password to access your Cyrus email.

MICROSOFT EXCHANGE

A Microsoft Exchange email account is provided as part of the Central LAN service. You can manage your email with Microsoft Outlook, Entourage, or Web Outlook, maintain your calendar, schedule meetings with other Outlook users, view the calendars of others, maintain a task list, assign task list items to others, maintain a contacts list, and share data with others. You will use a secure Exchange account ID and password to access your Exchange email.




Activate/Manage My UNI
(includes forwarding, vacation, password changes, etc.)

CYRUS
About Cyrus
Start CubMail
Start INGO (filters)
Start Pine
Start CUNIX
About CubMail
About INGO (filters)
About Pine
About Access Control
About Public Folders
Configuring a mail program

EXCHANGE
About Central LAN/Exchange
Start WebOutlook

MAIL SERVICES
SMTP servers
Mailing lists
Spam Filters