ITI: Configure Mail Client

With the new mail server you now can acces your mail from the outside
and even send mail as if you where at the institute.

The new mailserver uses the new LDAP-based password database. You can easily change your password with the
webmail frontend.
The new password must be a minimum of 6 characters long and out of the 4 character classes,
"lowercase characters", "uppercase characters", "numbers",
"symbol characters" you must use 3 classes (e.g. Test123 satisfies 'upercase', 'lowercase', 'numbers',
p@ssw0rd satisfies 'numbers', 'lowercase', and 'symbol', while passw0rd only satisfies
two classes 'lower' and 'symbols').
In the near future the new password will be valid for all Unix and Windows Logins on the institute computers.

The webmail frontend can be rached with
http://www.iti.cs.tu-bs.de/horde. Read more about it below.

Get Mail

• Server: mailv.iti.cs.tu-bs.de [134.169.39.83]
• Protocol: imap or imaps or pop3 or pop3s
• Encryption:
  • with imap and pop3: TLS
  • with imaps and pop3s: no additional encryption
• Username: Unix - Login Name
• Legitimation: use Password

suggested use: imaps

In pine configure following in the .pinerc file:

  inbox-path={mailv.iti.cs.tu-bs.de/user=YourUsername}inbox
  incoming-folders=
  folder-collections="Mail iti" {mailv.iti.cs.tu-bs.de/user=YourUsername}[]

In newer versions of pine, if pine complains about invalid certificate,
you should insert the parameter /novalidate-cert in front of '/user=...'.

Example: Evolution, Thunderbird

Sending Mail

• Protocol: SMTP
• Port: 587 (submission)
• Server: mailv.iti.cs.tu-bs.de [134.169.39.83:587]
• Legitimation: needed
• Encryption: [START_] TLS
• Username: Unix - Login Name
• Legitimation: Login

In pine configure the following:

  smtp-server=mailv.iti.cs.tu-bs.de:587/user=YourUsername

Example: Evolution, Thunderbird

Webmail Frontend:

Horde Groupware is a comprehensive software solution. The included webmail application imp
should satisfy all email desires.
You can reach it via horde or go directly to imp.
There is also a newer version called dimp which reacts more dynamic in modern browsers.
In the near future there will be a minimalistic version for mobile clients called (mimp).

The filter configuration can be found under Mail/Filters. Here you should also activate the Spam filter.
Additionally it is possible to put a "Vacation" notice, or a mail redirection "Forward" here.

Filter

It is strongly recommended to use server sided email filtering with sieve. With this, your mail will
be filtered by the mail server with your filter rules, no matter how you access them,
e.g. with the webmail frontend or an independent mail client, e.g thunderbird.

For Thunderbird there exists a Sieve-Plugin;
but it is recommended to create and maintain the filters with the webmail frontend. At most use this plugin for viewing the existing filter rules.
Evolution users must maintain their filter rules with the webmail frontend, because there is no sieve-support in Evolution.

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