PLEASE NOTICE: From 20/9/2022 access to CS Unix mail is possible only from inside Technion network (CS or Technion SSLVPN)
CS mail services provide Staff/Faculty IMAP/POP3/SMTP services on CSA server.
Graduate students IMAP/POP3/SMTP services on CSM/CSD server.
You must have an account on CSA / CSM to use the mail services. You can access your mail using any mail client that support IMAP or POP3.
Please see general setup below for your mail client (Outlook / Thunderbird, etc.) for IMAP and POP3.
You can enter the detailed setup for specific popular mail clients.
You can use CS WebMail .
Staff/Faculty has a size limit of 3GB for a folder (including Inbox and Sent Items folders). It is advisable not to exceed 1GB mailbox size for Inbox and Sent Items folders for performance/locking problems. For folders other than Inbox, the quota limit of home dir applies.
Graduate students has a size limit on INBOX of 1GB .
Please see how to set forwarding.
Check How to reduce a mail folder size by moving older messages to other folder.
Access to INBOX and other folders can be done directly (Unix mbox) on CSD/CSM using mail / pine / mutt and other command line utilities.
Unix mail is Mbox format mail which mail folders correspond to Unix files. Its not possible to create subfolder of a folder. To create a folder that has subfolders, like filesystem on Unix, create a directory under your mail directory in your Unix homedir. Then, subscribe to it, and then create a mail folder under it in mail utility.
IMAP protocol setup:
General IMAP mail box setup for SEGGEL/Staff (CSA users)
- Incoming mail setup:
- Server : IMAPSG.cs.technion.ac.il
- Port : Secured Connection ( SSL) port – 993
- Imap path (default) : mail
- Username / Password : Your CSA username/password.
- Outgoing mail setup:
- Server : mailout.cs.technion.ac.il
- Port: Secured connection (SSL) port 465
- Authentication is required (same as incoming mail username/password).
General IMAP mail box setup for Assistants/PHD students (CSM Users)
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- Incoming mail setup: The same as SEGGEL but with server : IMAPTA.cs.technion.ac.il, and CSM/D username/password.
- Outgoing mail setup: The same as SEGGEL above.
POP protocol setup:
General POP3 Email Settings for SEGGEL/Staff (CSA users)
- Incoming POP mail setup:
- Server : POPSG.cs.technion.ac.il
- Port : Secured Connection (SSL) port – 995
- If you want to leave a copy on server, make sure you set this option, otherwiase the messages are copied to your mail client and deleted from server.
- Username / Password : Your CSA username/password.
- Outgoing mail setup: The same as in IMAP above.
General POP3 Email Settings for Assistants/PHD students (CSM Users)
- Incoming POP mail setup: The same as POP3 SEGGEL but with server : POPTA.cs.technion.ac.il, and CSM/D username/password.
- Outgoing mail setup: The same as SEGGEL above.
If you want to filter Unix Email, you can use you Outlook or other mail client, or use Procmail utility.