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Email and Password Tools
This section provides tools for initiating your account, changing or resetting your password, reading email, and configuring your email client.
Setting your password
- Initiate your account (students only)
- Student Internet Account Initiation
- Use this tool to initiate (open) your UMD Email/Internet account and get your username and password. You will need to provide your Social Security Number, UMD student ID number and birth date in the appropriate fields. Change your password
- Internet login OR Change your UMD password
- Use this tool to change the password on your UMD Email/Internet account (for students, faculty and staff, it will also change your University of Minnesota X.500 account). You will be prompted to authenticate with your username and password and, depending on the type of account you have, will be directed to one of the following screens:
Internet Login screen (students, faculty and staff): Type in your username and password and select the Login button.
Change Your UMD Password screen (sponsored internet, others): Type in your new password, retype it to verify it, and select the Submit Password button.
- Reset your password
- Students: If your forget your password, you will need to have it reset by ITSS or Library staff at one of the designated areas listed below. You will need your student ID. During business hours:
- Visit the Campus Center Info Desk
- Visit or call the Student Assistance Center (Campus Center 21, x8000)
- Call the ITSS Help Desk (x8847) - Faculty and staff: Contact Spring Billiar (x8843) during office hours.
Configuring your email
- Configure email for off-campus
- Configuring your email program if you use other ISPs
- Mulberry comes preconfigured for use at UMD, either on-campus of off-campus through the UMD modem pool. However, if you use another ISP such as CPInternet or Charter and would like to use Mulberry, you will need to make some minor configuration changes to the program.
- Configure secure email
- Secure email
- Beginning January, 2007, only email clients configured to use secure settings will be able to connect to the UMD email servers to send and receive mail. To avoid interruptions in connecting to our email system we recommend that you configure your email program to use secure connections well before the end of Fall semester, 2006.
- Configure Eudora/Outlook/other email clients
- Configuring email clients for use at UMD
- The supported email clients - Mulberry, Pine and IMP - are preconfigured for use at UMD. However, if you prefer to use Eudora, Outlook, or others, you will need these guidelines to configure them properly.
- Forward your email
- UMD Email Forwarding
- Use this tool to forward your UMD email to another account.
Caution: Your email account is the official means of communication between you and the University. Before you forward your UMD email to another account, be sure that you can easily receive it at your chosen address. For details on some problems with forwarding, see Mail Forwarding Caution.
Setting email filters
- Turn on autoreply (vacation response)
- Email features menu (select "Autoreply")
- Use this tool if you plan to be out of the office for an extended period of time and want to send an automated reply to each person who sends you email informing them of this. You customize the reply message, which is sent to a person only once (the first time they send you an email).
- Set up email filters
- Email features menu
(select "Mail Filters") - Use this tool to filter out email from unwanted sources. You can filter on the subject line, the email "from" line, or a domain (for example, everything from aol.com). You can also select to delete the filtered email with reading it, store it in a separate folder, or forward it to another account.
- Set up Spam Assassin
- Email features menu (select "Spam Assassin")
- Use this tool to identify and filter out "spam" from your incoming email. For more information, see: SpamAssassin available for UMD email
Reading email
- Read your UMD email
- IMP Webmail or Mulberry
- Use IMP Webmail to read your UMD email now.
- Or, download and install Mulberry on your computer to read your email later.
- Check your email from coordinate campuses
- Webmail Pro
- Use this tool to check email if you have (or had) email delivery set to the Twin Cities, Crookston or Morris. For Crookston or Morris, you will need to know the IMAP server:
- Crookston: mail.crk.umn.edu
- Morris: cda.mrs.umn.edu
Miscellaneous tools
- Check your disk quota or modem connect time
- Central System Usage Report
- Use this tool to check the amount of disk storage you are currently using to store your email. You can also check your modem pool and CPU use.
- Check your IP address
- Information about IP Address
- Use this tool if you are having problems sending email to UMD accounts or connecting to UMD systems. This tool checks your IP (network) address to see whether or not it is properly registered on the Internet. For security reasons, computers with improperly registered IP addresses are not allowed to connect to some UMD systems.
- Find a University email address
- Find People
- Use this tool to find the email address for University of Minnesota students, faculty and staff.
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