What is my CS email address and how do I configure my email program to use it?
Your email address is your esus username followed by @cs.montana.edu.
To configure an email client, go into your desired email client's account settings to create a new account. You'll need to know your username, password, incoming email server, and outgoing email server.
The primary email server for cs.montana.edu accounts is esus.cs.montana.edu.
For picking up email, POP3 and IMAP are available, as well as the secure flavors of both. For outgoing email, SMTP is used. The standard port numbers are used for all email services and you generally should not have to set any port numbers in your email client program.
When configuring your desired email program, just put in esus.cs.montana.edu (or just cs.montana.edu if you prefer) for both your incoming and outgoing server. IMAP is preferred over POP3.
NOTE: For outgoing email (SMTP), if you ARE NOT connecting from on campus, you must configure your email client to authenticate before sending or your email will be blocked as "relaying denied".
How do I read my CS email over the web? (webmail)
SquirrelMail is currently our webmail package of choice. You can read webmail either via http or https (secure http). Of course the later is preferred. Here are the URLs:
https://www.cs.montana.edu/mail
http://www.cs.montana.edu/mail
Note: To save money, we decided to "self generate" the secure certificate (https) and as a result your browser may prompt you to manually verify the certificate rather than just accepting it automatically. Various web browser programs handle manual verification of secure certificates differently but it should a fairly straight forward process. If you have any questions about the secure certificate, feel free to email admin@cs.montana.edu.
How do I forward my CS email to another email address?
Email forwarding is rather simple. Just place a text file named .forward in your home directory on esus.cs.montana.edu. The .forward file should be a text file that contains the email address you would like your email forwarded to.
The easiest way to create a .forward file is to ssh into esus.cs.montana.edu using your esus username and password. Run your preferred text editor to create/edit a file named .forward. If you are not familiar with non-GUI text editors, nano is recommended as it is fairly simple and has the hotkeys for the various commands shown at the bottom of the screen. Just "nano ~/.forward". Again, the .forward file should be just one line containing the desired email address you want your email forwarded to.
Note: Make sure to test your mail forwarding anytime you change your .forward file to make sure it works. If you don't test it, there is no guarantee that you won't lose your email. To test, just send an email to your CS email account and verify that it actually ends up at the correct place.
