The ECE department has a new email server up and running as part
of the server consolidation project for the ECE research groups.
The server consolidation project objective is to have the core
computer services managed on high-availability servers, with
more space and flexibility to expand. User accounts will be
transitioned to the new server over time.
The new ECE email server uses the industry standard model of separation of user devices and Email server. Client applications on user devices such as cell phones, desktops, tablets, and laptops connect to the Email server using a secure network protocol (IMAP) to access email. Most of the ECE research groups use this model so the transition to the new Email server should be smooth. Unix users now reading mail via very old mail readers (/user/bin/mail, mailx, Mail, elm, and mh) should switch to a mail reader that supports IMAP and SMTP, such as pine.
The new ECE mail server uses a new mail folder format which greatly improves message handling and performance for users with multiple devices. The new mail folder format will eliminate conflicts when users are connecting with multiple devices to send and read email messages.
Users will be contacted by the Computer Services staff when their account is ready to be transfered to the new ECE Email server. You can then add a new account in your mail client on all your PCs and devices with the mail.ece IMAP and STMP addresses. Your mail folders will be copied over to the new mail server by our Computer Services staff.
Users login name and password on the new mail server will be the same as on their existing research group mail server.
The new email server is “mail.ece.utoronto.ca”. Email sent to the users old email server such as “user@comm.utoronto.ca” will automatically be forwarded to the new email server, starting when their account is migrated to the new server. New user accounts will start using the new Email server “user@ece.utoronto.ca”.
The new ECE webmail server “webmail.ece.toronto.edu” is set up running SquirrelMail. The Computer Services staff will also be looking into alternate Web mail servers.
An ECE wiki page has been created with more technical details.
http://wiki.ece.utoronto.ca/doku.php/userdoc:ece_email:email_technical
- Peter Pereira
peterp@ece.utoronto.ca