UCC provides its members with their own email account - [email protected], or [email protected]. There are a multitude of ways that email accounts can be accessed:
- Using a mail client such as
alpineormutton any of our user machines - On the web by using one of our webmail systems: Roundcube is reliable or SOGo sometimes works. The latter also offers CalDAV calendaring (see below).
- Using a mail client on your normal computer using the IMAPS or POP3S
protocols: point your email client at
imaps.ucc.asn.auorpop3s.ucc.asn.auas appropriate and make sure you turn SSL on. Do not use STARTTLS; the port number is 993 or 995 respectively. You may find that your email client autoconfigures these settings once you have entered your email address. - To forward UCC mail to a different email address, create a file
~/.forwardcontaining 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 submission.ucc.asn.au as your SMTP host, again
enabling SSL, port 587 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.
Address Books and Calendars
You can use UCC's carddav (address book) and caldav (calendar) server
for your own personal address book across phones or computers. Just
point your software at sogo.ucc.asn.au (SSL enabled) with your UCC
username/password. These are part of the SOGo setup, there's a web
interface too. It should work out of the
box with Mac OS X or iPhones. You can use
CardDAV-Sync and
CalDAV-Sync on Android as an alternative to
Google's services.