How to read or forward your CSLab e-mail

Now that you have a CSLab e-mail address, people will start sending you e-mail there. You want to receive this e-mail.

You don't necessarily have to read your e-mail at CSLab if you're used to reading your e-mail somewhere else; you can forward your CSLab e-mail elsewhere.

However, CSLab e-mail is a more reliable service than some of the "free" e-mail services and I would suggest you consider the strategy of forwarding your other e-mail to CSLab and reading everything here.

Reading your CSLab e-mail at CSLab

You can log in with ssh and use various command-line tools, such as "alpine".

Or you can use any imap client and point it to imap.cs.toronto.edu. Turn on "TLS" or "STARTTLS". Outgoing mail server is smtp.cs.toronto.edu.

Much more at http://support.cs.toronto.edu/email/

There is also a "webmail" facility at https://webmail.cs.toronto.edu/afterlogic/

Forwarding your CSLab e-mail to elsewhere

To forward all of your CSLab e-mail to another address, create a file in your home directory named ".forward" whose contents is the address you want to forward your mail to (and nothing else). I can help you with this upon request.

If instead of creating a ".forward" you create a file called ".forward-nonspam", then a probabilistic spam filter is run on your mail messages and they are forwarded only if it decides that they are not spam; and spam is discarded.

Please test the forwarding after you turn it on! (Note, however, that GMail likes not to show you messages it thinks are from yourself, so send from elsewhere for testing purposes (e.g. from your CSLab account itself).)

Other UofT e-mail

As a graduate student, you also have an e-mail address ending in "@mail.utoronto.ca". This is not run by the CS department. But it is used by the non-CS parts of the university for some official communications by default, so you want to see mail to that too.

This service is called "UTmail+". For some reason, it is outsourced to Microsoft. So, to read your "UTmail+", configure your imap client as follows:

Incoming:
server outlook.office365.com
imap
port 993
SSL (TLS)
Outgoing:
server smtp.office365.com
port 587
STARTTLS

Detailed instructions for configuring Thunderbird are described at https://uthrprod.service-now.com/infocomm?id=kb_article&sys_id=7b59482ddb699110a350b8f3f39619f4
Detailed instructions for configuring Apple Mail (Macintosh) are described at https://uthrprod.service-now.com/infocomm?id=kb_article&sys_id=6adacc21dba99110a350b8f3f39619d9&table=kb_knowledge

Or you can read your UTmail+ on the web at https://mail.utoronto.ca .

Or you can forward it to CS or anywhere else by going to the URL https://outlook.office.com/owa/?realm=utoronto.ca&path=/options/forwarding