[email protected] 2.0
February 8th, 2012 by MarinaI have taken the adventurous step. I now have mail.utoronto.ca.
If you use Hotmail or the Window’s mail system then this shouldn’t be a whole new world for you. In fact it’s exactly like the Window’s Live emailing system… because that’s what it is. But for those who would like to get some information here’s a screenshot:
Let’s go through this!
- This is your list of mail! Yay!
- Here you find the different folders you can organize your mail into. You can create folders to organize yourself!
- Reply, reply all, or forward. Other actions are there too.
- You get your own calendar! And contact list! And tasks to keep yourself organized!
- This is the interesting part: online messaging. If another friend is online at the same time then they should appear online. It seems I don’t have many friends since no one is ever online on this thing.
Now that you’ve gotten past my horrible picture editing, we can get to some other information.
- To make the switch go to: http://email.utoronto.ca/
- Yes, it’s @mail.utoronto.ca instead of @utoronto.ca; I think we’re all upset but I doubt we can do much against it
- Once you sign up for the new address, all emails going to the old @utoronto.ca one will get forwarded over to the @mail.utoronto.ca one; this is only for a definite time that is currently unstated
- If you choose to opt out you will still have to get the @mail.utoronto.ca mail; but everything will get forwarded to your email of choice
- You can continue to get access to the webmail until they shut it down; presumably by August
- You MUST choose to opt in or out by that time or else you won’t have a UofT based email address =(
- Here are some additional support information (regarding syncs): http://webapps.utsc.utoronto.ca/ccweb/student-services/utmail/87-utmailsupport.html
Some features (my comments in brackets):
- 10GB Inbox (Compared to the previous 5MB… this is quite a nice change)
- Folders and automatic sorting (No more annoyingly specific links!)
- Calendar and contacts (You know you need to organize yourself)
- Integrated web-based Instant Messaging (In case you don’t actually feel like giving a random classmate your real IM account, this will suffice)
- Aggregate other personal e-mail accounts within one interface (Very easy to link; forwarding should be safer)
- Mobile Access to your e-mail, contacts and calendar with active sync (Welcome to the age of smartphones)
- Enhanced spam filtering
- Integration with WebApps (This is kind of like Google Docs for those of you fellow gmail users)
- Multiple browser support
Note that if you click “Options” in the top right hand corner and select “More Options…” you can fiddle around with it very easily. Generally this new server runs exactly like the Windows Live server… because again, that’s what it is. Interestingly enough, you actually can’t log on to your shiny new @mail.utoronto.ca email via the usual Windows’s Live login page, but instead you are forced to use the http://mail.utoronto.ca page instead.
Either way, go ahead to sign up! You’ll have to do it one day!
February 11th, 2012 at 9:49 pm
It could be useful to mention that feedback, such as complaints about the expiring email addresses, or other complaints can be submitted here:
http://email.utoronto.ca/?page_id=33
February 13th, 2012 at 9:11 am
I don’t have anyone to IM on there either…
I think that will be more useful next year, when more or less everyone gets UTmail+.