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Email Addresses

You will be assigned a Fermilab email address once you submit the Request Form for Computing Username and Primary Accounts and it gets processed. Your address will be of the form username@fnal.gov. Use this as your primary address to ensure that your mail passes through the Fermilab email gateway.

The Fermilab email gateway acts as a distribution point for all electronic mail between "@fnal.gov" and outside systems. The gateway facilitates the transfer of messages between dissimilar mail systems. It also scans all messages originating off-site for virus-infected attachments.

The Fermilab mail gateway server doesn't store mail; you will need to set your forward on the gateway server to point to an account on the system on which you choose to read your email (e.g., an IMAP server).

Email Addresses | IMAP | Contact Info | Mailing Lists | Netiquette

IMAP

Fermilab is encouraging the use of server-based email. The Computing Division supports IMAP (Internet Mail Access Protocol) and maintains a number of dedicated IMAP servers. IMAP is a client-server mail protocol designed to permit manipulation of remote mailboxes as if they were local. Your mail gets stored on a central IMAP mail server, and can be accessed from virtually anywhere, and by virtually any computer, without the need to transfer messages or files back and forth between the server and the local machine -- although you can!

You can access your IMAP mail using SSL-encrypted Webmail from any web browser, and/or use an OS-specific email client. The IMAP servers scan every message they receive for viruses, including those originating on-site, and remove any viruses they find.

Email Addresses | IMAP | Contact Info | Mailing Lists | Netiquette

Finding Contact Information

If you want to contact someone who works at Fermilab but you don't have the information you need, search the Fermilab Phone Directory. You can find the name, email address, telephone number, department or experiment affiliation, and other contact information for any employee, visiting scientist, or contractor. The search mechanism is very flexible.

Email Addresses | IMAP | Contact Info | Mailing Lists | Netiquette

Mailing Lists

Mailing lists are used extensively at Fermilab to facilate communication among people who have similar work interests, responsibilities, needs, problems, and so on. They can also be used as mail aliases. Many departments, groups, and experiments have mailing lists for intragroup communications, and you should subscribe to the appropriate one(s). Product-specific mailing lists exist for users of particular software products (these lists are typically named "productname-users@fnal.gov"), and lists exist for projects/working groups. You may want to subscribe to a number of lists, and later even create some. The messages of many of the mailing lists are archived and can be searched.

For information about mailing lists, see LISTSERV at Fermilab.

Email Addresses | IMAP | Contact Info | Mailing Lists | Netiquette

Netiquette for Listserv

For guidelines on composing email to send to a mailing list or a colleague, see Intel's Top 10 Commandments of Email or General User's Guide to LISTSERV®.

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