Email & Calendaring
Old Rice email Servers Shut Down August 15
Approximately 600 low-activity accounts remain on old Rice email servers. High-volume email accounts have already been migrated to the new Rice email servers. The old email servers will be shut down on August 15.
If you have an old email account that has not yet been migrated, please contact the Help Desk for assistance moving your account to its new home, or follow our online instructions for setting up mail clients.
Email is a vital method of communication and calendaring allows you to organize your meetings and committments. Find out about how these services work and how to make them work for you with the wide range of tools provided by Rice IT.
Webmail
- Webmail Log In - The purpose of the WebMail Project is to provide convient, easy to use, and secure access to Rice E-Mail accounts.
- Overview - Email basics, including a discussion of email restrictions and a list of helpful email links.
- Clients - Information on how to configure the correct settings for multiple clients (Outlook, Eudora, Macintosh or Thunderbird.)
- Rice Alumni - How to convert to an alumni account.
- Mailing Lists- Information on sending email to groups of recipients and email attachment limits.
- Off Campus Issues - Solutions to email problems for off campus students, staff, and faculty.
- Tools - Helpful tools enabled for email
- WebSieve - Instructions on how to use WebSieve for e-mail vacation/out of office messages, forwarding, filtering and rules
SPAM
- DSPAM - An explanation on how to use DSPAM, the highly effective filtering tool.
- Phishing - How to protect your self from electronic scams.
- Blacklist - See if blacklists can be helpful to you in getting rid of phishing and spam emails.
- Greylisting - Learn about a new tool that Rice will use to enhance spam protection.
Calendar
- Desktop and Internet Client - Pros and cons of accessing Oracle Calendar through the web or your desktop.
- Etiquette - Rules for using Oracle Calendar
- Features - Some neat features of the Oracle Calendar
- Oracle Calendar Overview - Overview of the Oracle Calendar facility
- Security - Addresses questions of "security" of the calendar system
- SyncML - The leading standard for synchronization of data
