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| ===== SCS Email Upgrade Information ===== | ===== SCS Email Upgrade Information ===== | ||
| - | The SCS technical Staff are in the process of upgrading the SCS email server. The new email server will have: | + | The SCS technical Staff have upgraded the SCS email server. The new email server will has: |
| * larger inbox size (1 GB) | * larger inbox size (1 GB) | ||
| * better spam protection | * better spam protection | ||
| * two webmail clients | * two webmail clients | ||
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| - | <note important>In order to facilitate the changes all users will need to **create a new account** on the new server. Documentation will become available on how to move files from your old email account. </note> | ||
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| - | <note warning>Account creation for the new SCS network is CLOSED at this time. The account creation will OPEN at the beginning of the Fall 2009 term. </note> | ||
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| * [[http://www.scs.carleton.ca/mail| Old Web Mail Link (daVinci) ]] | * [[http://www.scs.carleton.ca/mail| Old Web Mail Link (daVinci) ]] | ||
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| === Moving mail folders from daVinci === | === Moving mail folders from daVinci === | ||
| - | If you have an existing account on davinci and you want to make your existing mailboxes accessible on mail.scs.carleton.ca then you can do the following. | + | Your saved mail is stored in your linux home directory under the mail folder. Your old account files are accessible on [[services:external_access_host_quest | quest.scs.carleton.ca]] and you need to move that folder to your new account on [[ services:external_access_host_access | access.scs.carleton.ca ]]. |
| - | - zip or tar your mail folders | + | <note warning>quest is no longer accessible from outside of SCS. If you require to access your old account you can ssh to access and then from [[services:external_access_host_access|access.scs.carleton.ca]] ssh to quest.</note> |
| - | - copy the files to access.scs.carleton.ca | + | |
| - | - extract your mail folders | + | |
| - | Example: | ||
| - | User jdoe is using daVinci.scs.carleton.ca and wants to use mail.scs.carleton.ca and have his davinci mail boxes accessible. | ||
| - | <code>[jdoe@zeta03 ~]$ tar -cvf old_mail.tar ~/mail/ | + | You copy the folder as follows: |
| - | [jdoe@zeta03 ~]$ scp old_mail.tar access:. | + | |
| - | [jdoe@zeta03 ~]$ ssh access.scs.carleton.ca | + | |
| - | [jdoe@access ~]$ tar -xvf old_mail.tar | + | <code>[jdoe@quest ~]$ scp -r mail access:</code> |
| - | </code> | + | |
| Once you connect to mail.scs.carleton.ca you can then import your mail folders from your home directory. | Once you connect to mail.scs.carleton.ca you can then import your mail folders from your home directory. | ||
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