How
to get a user name and password
New freshwomen get their
email account during Wells Orientation. New faculty, staff, and transfer
students receive a letter mailed to their on campus mailbox with a user
name, password and a general guide to email. If there are questions,
please feel free to stop by Macmillan 109. Because of security concerns,
we do not give out passwords over the phone or by email.
Email accounts are free of
charge and remain active ONLY for the duration of a person's enrollment
or employment at Wells. If you are going to be away from Wells for a semester
or more, such as on a non-affiliated off-campus study program, please make
arrangements with Network Services.
Mailbox quotas
Electronic mailboxes on
our main mail server currently have a quota of 10 megabytes of disk space.
This is enough space to hold several hundred typical messages. If the mailbox
fills up, new incoming messages are discarded and the sender gets an error
message. When you use Wells WebMail to access your mailbox, your mail is
subject to HENRY's quota. If you use a POP3 client on your PC or Mac to
read mail, you can avoid quota issues by moving mail to your own machine
before your mailbox on the server fills up.
Anti-Virus / Anti-Spam
measures
All Wells email is currently
being scanned for viruses and worms. However no anti-virus measures can
be 100% effective so caution is still advised when opening an email attachment.
Due to censorship concerns, we only do minimal anti-spam measures consisting
of rules that stop mal-formed email (such as email with no return path)
and a "black hole" list that stops some of the major spammers. If
you or someone you know has problems sending Wells College a message from
off campus, click HERE for a guide to
resolving this issue.
Below are some ways to use
email at Wells
WELLS WEBMAIL
By far, this is the easiest
system.. From any Internet-enabled computer in the world, just go
to http://webmail.wells.edu and
log-in with your Wells user name and password. If your computer can
browse web sites, you can use this system.
also see: A
Guide to Using Wells WebMail
NOTE: AOL users may have
trouble using Wells WebMail with the proprietary browser that comes with
the AOL service. However, if the AOL browser is minimized, but the
telephone connection is maintained, and a standard browser is used instead,
Wells WebMail will work fine. Just click on the blue "e" icon located
on most desktops to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser with AOL's
service.
POP3 client program
Others may want to use their
own email clients such as Netscape or Outlook
Express to connect directly to our mail server.
see: Generic
POP3 Settings
A special note to
staff and faculty
Faculty and Staff machines
are configured by Wells Computer Services. Please feel free to call
if there are questions about your specific computer station.
Last updated 08/04/2003
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