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ITC Announcement/Migration of unix.mail Incoming Email

December 5, 2008

ITC will discontinue delivery of electronic mail messages to all unix.mail.virginia.edu accounts on March 10, 2009.

Beginning on Monday, January 5, 2009, faculty and staff may queue to migrate their incoming unix.mail email to accounts on either the UVa Exchange Service or the Central Mail Service (CMS). Students may queue to migrate their incoming unix.mail email to either UVa Gmail with Google Apps or UVa Microsoft Live@edu (however, see the warning below). Migration to any of these systems will provide users with more modern and sophisticated email interfaces, Web access to mailboxes, better spam filtering and protection, and portable device access.

Migration Help Available .........

As always, check with your departmental IT support staff (LSP) if you have questions about how to proceed. The ITC Help Desk is also prepared to respond to questions about the transition from unix.mail to one of the newer email programs.

After creating an account on a new incoming server, if you use an IMAP/POP email program or use Pine, you will need only change a few settings for obtaining their incoming mail from their new server; if you use a UNIX command line client (like Mush, elm or penelm), you will need to select a new program to read your email on your new incoming server. Aid for this migration is available on the Web at

http://www.itc.virginia.edu/email/unixmailmigration

ITC is providing a migration tool that will automate the process of moving existing Inbox email messages to your chosen email server, primary and alias address changes, and auto-forwarding of messages from unix.mail to your chosen incoming email server. This tool will be ready beginning on Monday, January 5, 2009. You may create your new account on your chosen email server whenever you want and on January 5, 2009 use the migration tool that will be available on the Web page at

https://www.mail.virginia.edu/unixmigr

Warning: Because UVa Microsoft Live@edu does not support the IMAP protocol, it is difficult, and in some cases may be impossible, to move messages from a unix.mail Inbox or a blue.unix folder to a UVa Microsoft Live@edu account. Students who select a UVa Microsoft Live@edu account should keep this in mind as they plan their migration. An email archive may be kept and accessed on blue.unix.

Please note that:

  • the blue.unix cluster is NOT being retired
  • email may still be sent from (but not received in) accounts on the blue.unix cluster
  • mail messages stored in folders on blue.unix may continue to be read locally on blue.unix: they will not be migrated by the migration tool
  • mail messages stored in folders on blue.unix may be moved by you to your new incoming server (up to the 2 GB limit, if you want all your messages on one server)
  • smtp.mail will continue to work and is not a part of this migration

Please contact your LSP, the ITC Help Desk, or view the Web pages referenced above for more information or if you have questions.

Information Technology and Communication/UVa

Posted: 2008-12-05

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