E-mail

UCC provides its members with their own e-mail account - username@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au, or username@ucc.asn.au. Members can get access to their email through any of our user machines, or by using our Webmail system. We run Horde/IMP as our webmail client.

If you want spam caught by UWA's spam filter to be moved to a separate ucc-spam mailbox, create an empty file ~/.filter-my-spam in your homedir. UCC also has it's own spam filtering, which catches more spam, but has slightly more false positives - you can use that by creating ~/.filter-my-spam-more. Remember that no spam filtering is 100% accurate - some real mail probably will get caught. To avoid spam filling up disks, ucc-spam mailboxes may be automatically cleared out after a month - check it every so often.

To forward UCC mail to a different email address, create a file ~/.forward containing a single line with the email address you want to forward to. Because of UWA policies, we won't forward on any spam that you receive - it will remain in your ucc-spam mailbox.

Mail transfer is currently uncharged, but this may change in the future due to bandwidth costs. We therefore ask our members to try to use e-mail accounts fairly - high traffic mailing lists can cost the club significant money.