#rev 2020-09-10 gfreudig
## page was renamed from EmailRemoteAccess
= Protocols =
You can access your mails remotely using your preferred mail client. Our mail server supports the following protocols:

= IMAP (Mail reading / managing) =
IMAP is a protocol for reading and managing emails remotely, which leaves all the emails stored on the mail server. The mail client just shows you a list of your messages. As this requires only a small data transfer this works well even over a slow connection such as a modem. Only if you request to read a specific email will it be downloaded from the server. The IMAP-Server for your email at D-ITET is called:

{{{imap.ee.ethz.ch}}}

We use [[http://www.dovecot.org/|Dovecot]] as IMAP server.

= SMTP (Mail posting) =
The SMTP protocol is used by the Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) to deliver your eMail to the recipient's mail server. The SMTP-Server for Computers of the D-ITET is called:

{{{smtp.ee.ethz.ch}}}

We use [[http://www.postfix.org/|Postfix]] as SMTP server. It supports SSL encryption and SMTP-authentication so that it is possible to use it remotely.
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