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IAT-AdCom has recently completed the process of helping UCI administrative departments migrate to a new email service structure. 12 departments and 570 users have been assisted in this process since January.
The migration involved three changes, each intended to improve email service to affected users. The most obvious change was moving from Eudora, a program that [...]
Daily Spam (red) and other Email (blue)
In 2008, UCI email readers were spared almost one billion spam messages which were blocked by the NACS spam-mitigation system prior to delivery. This represents more than 21,000 messages for each faculty, staff, and student at UCI last year.
Of the messages accepted for delivery, 12 million were labeled as [...]
During the last academic year, NACS made a number of enhancements to the central campus email service.
The most important changes were implemented to improve performance and responsiveness of the email system, including the Webmail interface.
One of those changes was the format in which email was stored (the “mix mailbox format” from the University of Washington) [...]
I have forgotten my UCInetID password. What can I do now?
Access the UCInetID Web form at: http://activate.uci.edu/ .
Click on “I forgot my password.”
You will be asked to prove your identity with your UCInetID, your date of birth, and the last four digits of your social security number.
Once you have correctly entered that information, you will [...]
I have been assigned a phone number that was used by my predecessor, but I can’t get into Infomail (voice mail). How do I get the password reset?
Please fill out a Service Request Form (SRF) http://www.nacs.uci.edu/service-request/ and specify in the comments section that you need an Infomail password reset. There is a $10 charge to reset the Infomail password. [...]
Once a convenient alternative to leaving messages on an answering machine, email has become both an almost irreplaceable communication resource and an annoyingly exploited involuntary advertisement and network attack medium.
NACS has taken many measures to return email to a usable and trustworthy service, including aggressive spam filtering and restricting to UCI affiliates the ability to [...]