You will soon receive an email from ACCC, notifying you that your mailserv-account has been created and that it is time to switch. For 30 days, starting with that notification, your mail will automatically be sent to both your new mailserv-account and to your old CMS-account, so you can safely experiment with Eudora for a little while, get used to it, and then make the final step. After those 30 days, mail will only be sent to your mailserv-account, so you should go ahead and switch as soon as you can! Check the computer center's VMOmega pages for details.
If you still receive email on CMS after these 30 days are over, it has been addressed to an outdated address, and you must notify the sender of your new address if you wish to keep contact with them. You can at any time during the rest of the year retrieve those last messages into a new NOTEBOOK and convert and transfer it just like the others.
It is extremely important to check all your email carefully these days: who is it addressed to? If someone is still sending you email to an address of the form u12345@uicvm.uic.edu (or any other address involving your CMS userID), you need to contact them right away and notify them that this address will not work anymore. Instead, they should use your newer address of the form yourNetID@uic.edu (this addressing style has been in use for several years now, and everybody should use it in their outgoing mail at UIC).
People may forget your newer email-address, but an even more frequent source
of problems are mailing lists (LISTSERV etc.), where you have been subscribed
for a (possibly) long time without any need to change your address. Make sure
that all mailing lists you are subscribed to know you as yourNetID@uic.edu
- if not, you may need to unsubscribe and re-subscribe. Many times, a little
note to the list-owner asking to change your address for the list also works
well, in particular for lists with closed subscription (by owner only).
Note:
if the list is known as LISTNAME@server.domain, and
it is a LISTSERV list, then you can send your request to LISTNAME-request@server.domain
(all LISTSERV lists support such an address for the owner of the list,
but other systems, such as listproc or majordomo, may not).
In case you have a tigger- or icarus-account and receive direct
mail on it (meaning mail addressed to yourNetID@tigger.cc.uic.edu
or yourNetID@icarus.cc.uic.edu), you can make use of
Unix's simple mail-forwarding method. Using any editor, such as pico,
create a file called .forward in your home directory (yes, the
filename starts with a dot -- that makes it a system-file), into which you put
only a single line containing your preferred account, such as yourNetID@mailserv.uic.edu
(it is also possible to put multiple forwarding-addresses on multiple lines).
Be careful not to create any mail-forwarding cycles by forwarding from one machine
to another, and from the second again to the first!
Note that you can also set up multiple personalities in Eudora to check your mail at various locations, such as mailserv and icarus. This is more an option for power users, though.
Many users connect to UIC via our own dial-in servers, but lots have their own Internet Service Provider, which usually means they also have an email-account there. While at UIC, everybody should preferably send out email as yourNetID@uic.edu, as this is the email address listed in the UIC phonebook, both printed and on the web. However, some users like reading their mail via their ISP's email-account, rather than via mailserv. To set your preferred maildrop-location, you can access our new online phupdate facility. Please do make sure, however, to include Reply-to: yourNetID@uic.edu headers in your outgoing mail for any UIC correspondence.
