E-mail

/ee'mayl/ (also written `e-mail') 1. n. Electronic mail automatically passed through computer networks and/or via modems over common-carrier lines. Contrast {snail-mail}, {paper-net}, {voice-net}. See {network address}. 2. vt. To send electronic mail.

UCC provides its members with their own e-mail account - username@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au, or username@ucc.asn.au. There are a multitude of ways that email accounts can be accessed:

Using a mail client such as alpine or mutt on any of our user machines
On the web by using one of our webmail systems: choices include the old-school Horde/IMP, Gmail-style RoundCube and SOGo; the latter also offers CalDAV calendaring.
Using a mail client on your normal computer using the IMAPS or POP3S protocols: point your email client at secure.ucc.asn.au and make sure you turn SSL on. Do not use STARTTLS; the port number is 993 or 995 respectively.
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.

You can also send email using your UCC account from outside the UCC network by using secure.ucc.asn.au as your SMTP host, again enabling SSL, and making sure you turn on SMTP authentication with your username and password.

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.