Your Electronic mail (Email) addresses are (both are equivalent):
user@cs.utoronto.ca
user@cs.toronto.edu
You can read your email through IMAP, or by using one of the many mail reader programs available on CSLab's application servers, including: mail, pine, mutt mh (including X interfaces xmh and exmh), thunderbird, etc. If you haven't used any of these programs, try pine.
You can also read and send CSLab e-mail using our webmail server from anywhere in the world using most web browsers. Log in using your CSLab username and password.
Important: Never try to use more than one program to access your mail simultaneously. For example, if you have an instance of "pine" running, do not try to open your mail with "netscape", "mail", webmail, etc., until you have exited "pine."
Answer: Web Mail is available at https://webmail.cs.toronto.edu/
Answer: please see our Simple Email Stuff page.
Answer: please see our Simple Email Stuff page.
Answer: Please consult the following link: Email Settings
Answer: In order to use the CSLab mail server to send email when off-campus you must either use the CSLab VPN (recommended solution) or port-forward port SMTP traffic via SSH. Please see the following page for more information: Accessing CSLab Remotely
Follow the links on either VPN usage or SSH-tunneling.
Answer: It is absolutely imperative that you scan any and all attachments you receive.
Luckily, the University has an agreement with Norton that enables members of the
University community to install a version of the Norton Anti-Virus suite at no charge.
Please see the following page on how to do get it:
Norton Anti-Virus
In general, do not open attachments or follow links in any email you did not expect, even if it appears to be from a trusted sender (it is easy to forge a sender on an email message). If you receive an email with an attachment or a link, ask the sender for verification before opening it. This may be a nuisance, but it is not as much of a nuisance as dealing with the aftermath of having your machine compromised by an attacker.
Answer: Unfortunately, forging mail headers, especially the "from" address, is trivial and there has been a recent spate of viruses and trojans that are doing exactly this. Spammers also use this trick. This results in recipients mistakenly thinking the person in the "from" field sent the email when in fact he or she did not. Postal mail provides an exact analogy: just as anyone can put anyone's name on a postal envelope, this is also true for email. So the short answer to the question above is that you have most likely received an email with forged headers. Please destroy it/them and do not open any attachments that it may contain.
Please also note that if you CSLab username is a common name such as Bob or Jim, you will tend to see a lot more kinds of these emails, since Spammers have a tendency to use well-known usernames in "From" headers.
Answer: Until email is redesigned there is nothing that you can do to stop this from happening. Using the postal service again as an analogy, it is like trying to stop people using your home address on envelopes.
Answer: CSLab staff will never send you an email containing an attachment. Do not open the attachment, it more than likely contains a virus.
I have received an email from CNS or some other computing service on campus which contains an attachment. They say the attachment is important and that I need to open it. Did they really send it?
Answer: This is almost certainly a forged email and the attachment likely contains a virus or a trojan. Do not open it.
Answer: Please go to our SPAM filtering page.
You can use your oldmail to retrieve copies of recent email that you've received.
Answer: Yes, there are some authoritative departmental mailing lists: these are documented on our official mailing lists page.
Answer: Please go to our Mailing List page.
Answer: Please go to our Mailing List page and set up a mailing list of the desired name that has yourself as the only member.