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The University electronic mail system (sometimes known
as Pantheon)
is recommended for all new faculty, students, and staff
in Engineering. This system serves most of the
Yale community (over 15,000 accounts), and is managed
by by ITS Email
services and ITS Workstation
Support Services. The Pantheon is a cluster
of Sun Solaris based servers which provide a comprehensive
set of Internet-standard mail and login services.
Do I have an Account?
All students receive information on establishing a
Pantheon email account at registration. Engineering
faculty and staff are generally entitled to these accounts
as well. Your account's username is your Yale
"NetID". For further information for new arrivals
to Yale Engineering, see the new
faculty check-list.
The Pantheon proper is a Sun Unix system comprising
4 large multiprocessor login servers, mars.yale.edu,
minerva.yale.edu, mercury.yale.edu, and morpheus.yale.edu,
along with a number of NFS and other specialized servers.
If you are familiar with Unix commands, you can use
these systems for light programming.
How Do I Access My Email?
You may send and receive Pantheon email by various
methods.
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Web Mail
Service
Effective Sept. 1, 2000, you may access your Pantheon
email over the Web at https://www.mail.yale.edu.
This service uses your secure Web browser connection
from home, office or anywhere on the Internet.
Web mail uses IMAP access, as described below.
I.e., you can create multiple mailboxes on the mail
server. |
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SSH/Terminal
Access
You may login to one of the Pantheon Unix
hosts (mars, mercury, minerva, morpheus) using the
SSH program. This software is available at
http://www.yale.edu/software.
Once you are logged in, you may use "Pine"
to send or receive mail. We recommend
Web mail (above) as a more secure and convenient
method. |
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Kerberized
Telnet Access
Telnet access to the Pantheon is also supported.
Special "Kerberized" Telnet is required,
however. This software is also available at
http://www.yale.edu/software.
You may run Pine on a Telnet session. |
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POP (PostOffice
Protocol)
This is a method that allows your personal
computer to interact with the Pantheon's POP server
to deliver mail to your own hard drive. You
do not need to login to a Unix system. Everything
is "point and click". The only recommended
client is Eudora with Kerberos extensions.
Other POP clients are insecure. (See
ITS
Eudora Setup.) |
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IMAP (Internet
Message Access Protocol)
IMAP extends the POP method to include a
way to file your mail in folders that remain on
the IMAP server, thus allowing you to move between
various computers while still keeping access to
all your mail. IMAP4 is the protocol used
internally on the Pantheon for Web mail and Pine.
The only recommended IMAP client (other than Pine
or Web mail) is Netscape Communicator, running in
secure (SSL) mode. |
More details are available at http://pantheon.yale.edu/help/.
For dial-in PPP connections (from home or on the road),
consult the ITS
Remote Access Services page.
ITS has a good email
services page. |
