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Mail Account

Your mail address

Your eMail arrives on our Unix mail server called Tardis. If you are a D-ITET student, your eMail address is username@ee.ethz.ch where username is your Unix login name.

Your mailbox

You receive your email on a so called "inbox", which is a special folder with all the incoming mails. You should try to keep this folder as small as possible by moving the mails you want to keep to another folder and deleting what you don't need. There is a "soft" limit of 50 MB on that folder and you will get warning messages if your mailbox becomes bigger. This is just a reminder: mail will always be delivered, independently of the size of your inbox. What you can do to prevent getting messages from the mailbox-guard is:

Forwarding

You can forward your email simply by creating a file ~/.forward in your home directory of your EE Unix account. This file should just contain a line with the eMail address to which you want to forward all your EE eMail. There are quite a few other things you can accomplish with the ~/.forward file. To this end consult the following table:

Line in ~/.forward

Meaning

email-address

All incoming email will be forwarded to <email-address>.

tardis-username,email-address

All incoming email will be forwarded to email-address, additionally a copy stays on your EE-Account.

In order to stop your email from being forwarded just delete the ~/.forward file.

Remark: All incoming mail is filtered with procmail by default, procmail is a simple, yet powerfull filter (see Procmail for more information on procmail).

You can also setup the forwarding of your mails online:

CliGUI: Forward

Note: If you are student, althought you own a mailbox with an 'ee.ethz.ch'-adress, there is a .forward-file in your home, which forwards the mails to the Exchange-Server of ID. This means that you should use the official students-adress 'student.ethz.ch'. And which also means, that you should not make a forward to 'ee.ethz.ch' in your NETHZ-account, because that would result in a mail-loop.

Vacation

If you are offline for a few days, you can activate our automatic email response service. It will send a message to everyone who tries to contact you during your absence.

You can activate the vacation message online:

CliGUI: Vacation

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