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The Cyrus email software was developed at Carnegie-Mellon University and
has been implemented at many of our peer institutions, including CMU,
the University of Michigan, and Stanford. It manages access and
storage of mail messages according to accepted internet standards,
allowing users to access their mail with almost any
standards-compliant mail program including Cubmail, Pine, Outlook,
Thunderbird, or Apple Mail.
Cyrus is open-source software, developed and maintained through
contributions from the community of people who use it. One of the
biggest advantages of open-source software is that it can be modified
or enhanced based on the features desired by its users. For example,
Cambridge University in England adapted Cyrus to make backup copies of
all messages in real time ("replication") and to provide a way to
recover deleted and expunged messages. Since this was a feature we
wanted for you here at Columbia, we hired a programmer to refine the
deleted-message recovery facility of Cyrus &mdash and now these improved
features have been incorporated into the Cyrus software and are also
available to any organization using Cyrus.
The Cyrus mail store is accessible using email software. Cubmail and
Pine are configured for you. If you use a mail program installed on
your own computer, you can configure it to use IMAP or POP to access
your mail. IMAP is recommended because it stores mailboxes on the
Cyrus server, where you can access them from anywhere, and where they
are backed up by CUIT.
The personal filter system for Cyrus is known as Sieve, and is managed
by the web-based Ingo system. Sieve includes "vacation" replies,
mail sorting and rejecting.
(Last Modified: Tuesday, June 03, 2008)
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