26 Apr
SCINIX mail migration to Google
All smith mail moves to google as of May 1. Below are the key details as they relate to scinix mail owners.
All incoming mail directed to Google – May 1
Mail directed to@cs.smith.edu, @math.smith.edu, @ast.smith.edu will be delivered to your @smith.edu account hosted on Google. A few people have account names on scinix that do not match their google mail account name. ex. orourke vs. jorourke. Those users have aliases in the system to allow mail destined to the legacy acct name will end up in your mailbox.
Note that mail sent to @scinix.smith.edu, will not be delivered. Scinix is a host, not a valid email domain, so any mail to @scinix will be dropped.
So on May 1, the scinix mail server will no longer deliver mail to external addresses, via SMTP (regular mail delivery) and IMAP/POP.
SCINIX mailing lists and aliases
chair and mathchair have been created for google mail. All of the other mail lists that are user maintained will go dead. These can be recreated in a couple ways. One method is to use google groups. Another is to use the science centers listserv mailing list server. This is a moderated listserver. Ask CATS for help if you want to use either of these two options.
Porting existing UNIX mail from SCINIX to google- 6 months
You have 6 months to port your UNIX mail to google. The method to do this involves connecting to the scinix POP server from google to pull the mail in. After 6 months, we will turn off the POP server.
Your existing scinix mail folders and INBOX will remain around forever (well for a long time anyway). Six months out from May 1, say Nov 1. We will move your INBOX, which resides in a mailspool, to your home directory. At that time we stop backing up the mailspool.
To port your mail…
Open google mail
Click Settings > Accounts > Get Mail from other accounts (Pop3) > Add other accounts
The first dialog box asks for the email address to add. Enter, youruser@scinix.smith.edu and click next.
The next dialog gets the following info:
username: youruser
password: yourpassword
POP server: scinix.smith.edu
Port: 995
Check “Always use SSL…” and “Label incoming messages…” Use a label name that makes sense to you.
Click Add Acct>
You will get an error screen complaining about the SSL cert. Accept this and your email will start importing.
