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 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