Email & Web Services - FAQs

Email
Mailing Lists

D-Mail (Directed Mass Email)
Servers & Web Hosting

 

Email

How do I get an email account?

Which email address should I use?

Why should I use my campus ‘utah.edu’ email address?

How do I forward my email to another email address?

How do I remove forwarding?

Why do I keep getting the email message “DON’T DELETE THIS MESSAGE—FOLDER INTERNAL DATA”?

How do I close my email account?

How can I view email headers?

What is spam?

What is UCE?

How did they get my address?

Why can't the Campus UMail server just delete this stuff for my 'utah.edu' Email account?

How are messages classified as UCE by the campus UMail server?

Will genuine messages coming to my 'utah.edu' address get lost by mistake?

What can I do to stop getting spam?

How do I set up a filter?

What does “421 machines not registered with their own name server not allowed in” mean?
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Mailing Lists

How do I subscribe to a mailing list?

How do I unsubscribe from a mailing list?

How do I log onto the campus list web interface?

How do I set up a list on the campus list server?

How can I find out what email commands are available on the new Sympa list server?

What if my email address 'uNID@utah.edu' and uNID password don't work to log onto the list server?

Do I have to use my 'uNID@utah.edu' email address?

Why can't I unsubscribe from a specific list? I didn't get an error, but I wasn't unsubscribed.

As list owner, I get messages from subscribers that I must approve before being posted to the list. Why?

How do I set up the list so subscribers reply just to a message's sender and not to the whole list?

Why do I keep getting an error when I try to send an attachment to an email list?

 

directed email

What are "Formal" University Communications?

To which groups may "Formal" e-mail messages be sent?

What is d-mail?

What is required to process a d-mail request?

How do I place an order for d-mail?

What information can I put in the mailing?

Who provides the content?

Who decides what "Formal" messages may or may not be sent?

Is a specific format required for "Formal" University communications?

How do I send a "Formal" message to University students, faculty or staff?

What can I expect?

Can I be sure that every student, faculty, or staff member will receive the "Formal" message?
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Servers and Web Hosting

Can I set up a department or organization web site?

Can you help me with website design?

What is the cost to host a website?

Is there a size restriction for each web site?

What about e-commerce, is there a charge?

How much disk space can I use on the server?

How do I access Library resources from home?

Can I publish personal web pages?

How do I set up my web space?

How do I publish a web page with SSH?

How do I publish a web page with FTP?

Can I use CGI on my pages?

Can CGI scripts be used on a department or organization web site?
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