E-mail


Your E-mail Address

All members of the Lewis and Clark community are allowed access to our electronic mail services. As a new student or employee of the college, you will need to activate your e-mail account through our account management web page.

Your Network User ID (commonly called a login) will be a 3 to 8 character representation of your name or initials and if there are several options available, you will be allowed to choose during the account activation process. You will also be allowed to choose your password. Your password must be 4-8 characters long and must contain at least one number or symbol. You must read and agree to the Responsible Use of Technology Resources policy in order to complete the activation process.

Your Network User ID combined with "@lclark.edu" is your e-mail address (for example, userid@lclark.edu).

Accessing Your E-mail

Information Technology supports IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) as our preferred e-mail protocol. Using IMAP, your e-mail is stored on our central mail server and you will be able to check your mail from virtually any computer on- or off-campus. Our primary supported e-mail clients are Thunderbird (for both Macintosh and Windows) and WebMail (web client available through any web browser).

You may download a pre-configured installer for Thunderbird from our campus software server.

If you choose to configure another e-mail program (e.g. Eudora), the basic settings are:

Incoming mail server: mail.lclark.edu
Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: smtp.lclark.edu**
E-mail Address: userid@lclark.edu
User Name: userid
Password: password

** Please Note: If you are sending mail through another ISP (off-campus), you will need to use the outgoing server for your ISP (e.g. smtp.comcast.net, mail.earthlink.net, pop.ptld.qwest.net)

Virus Filtering

Information Technology scans all incoming and outgoing mail for viruses. If the mail gateway identifies a virus, it will remove it and will notify the recipient of the removal.

Still, the virus gateway is not perfect. Some virus messages may get through the scanning process before virus definitions are updated. For this reason, Information Technology recommends that you never open an attachment, even from someone you know, if you have not been notified beforehand that a legitimate file is being sent to you.

SPAM

In response to an ever-growing volume of unsolicited e-mail, Information Technology has implemented two spam identification and handling systems. A new e-mail security appliance was installed during Spring 2005. The device offers effective handling of many e-mail-borne threats, including virus attacks and SPAM. In addition, we continue to provide SpamAssassin as an optional level of protection. SpamAssassin identifies SPAM messages and will allow you to either reject them or filter them in to your "spam-folder." If you choose to filter SPAM messages, you should periodically review the contents of this folder to ensure legitimate messages have not been caught and to clear out the unwanted messages.

 
Created by: consult@lclark.edu
Updated: 15 July 2005