FAQ - How to use Maths Mail

• IMAP (used for reading email)
  • server address = imap.maths.cam.ac.uk
  • server port = 143
  • connection security = STARTTLS
  • Authentication method = Normal Password
     
• SMTP (used to send email)
  • server address = smtp.maths.cam.ac.uk
  • server port = 587
  • connection security = STARTTLS
  • Authentication method = Normal Password

For instructions on how to configure Pine (now called AlPine) see Email on Ubuntu

Filters are created in Roundcube, the webmail interface.  In the past you may have written filters in plain text files, maybe a .forward or a .procmailrc file.  Unfortunately there is no way to reuse these old filters and import them into Roundcube.  Roundcube's filters are written in 'sieve'.  The interface is more graphical than old formats.  You can find the filter section by logging into Roundcube, on the left of the window there is the cog wheel settings icon, click it.  Under the 'Settings' menu select ''Filters'.  You can then create a filter by clicking on another cog wheel icon to the right of the 'Settings' menu, the cog icon is labelled 'Actions'.  Please bear in mind that with different version of Roundcube these menus may change layout and labels.

If you used to use .forward or .procmailrc files then you will need to manually convert them into sieve.  To speed this process up read through your old filters and work out what is still applicable and focus on moving just those.

There are a number of webpages to help guide you through the Roundcube filter interface, it's reasonably intuitive, but help can be found at:

https://support.mailhostbox.com/roundcubesievefiltering/
https://www.pair.com/support/kb/how-to-add-sieve-filtering-in-roundcube/

Log into Roundcube https://webmail.maths.cam.ac.uk/roundcube/

• Click on the cog looking icon labelled settings on the left of the screen.
• To create the filter, click on the text 'Filters'
• To create a new filter click on the word 'Create' (it has a '+'  icon) at the top right of the window
• Give the filter a name
• Change 'Scope' to 'matching any of the following rules'
• From the drop down menu underneath the word 'Rules', select 'X-cam-SpamScore'
• From the drop down to the right of 'X-cam-SpamScore' select 'contains'
• To the right of this drop down type in 'sssss'
• Change the drop down below the word 'Rules' to 'move message to'
• Select the folder you wish to move spam to

In order to prevent misuse (especially to protect against spammers), the faculty mail servers enforce the following limits:

1000 recipients, per hour, per person/machine.

This is further limited while the connection is made from outside the faculty network (excluding vpn, hotdesk, webmail, etc...):

250 recipients, per hour, per authenticated user.

If you are required to send bulk-email then we strongly advise the use of a mailing list.

These will be unzipped for you and moved to the new mail server.

Short answer is no, all mail is stored on the server.  You can keep your /mail folder for reference but the new mail server will not read or write to it, it's how it works.

We have instructions on how to configure Pine (now called AlPine) to read folders on the new mail server.