CS Email
Notice:
The CS email system may be down from 7 to 8 am on Thursdays for routine maintenance.
Your CS Email Address
Your CS email address is your account name followed by @cs.uchicago.edu This is distinct from your University or harper email address. You can forward mail between them (or anywhere else) if you like.IMAP
We offer IMAP email service, a secure service which is supported by many popular mail clients. See our page on Configuring CS IMAPMail Readers
We do not recommend any particular mail reader. Many are available on our linux systems, including pine, mutt, and mail readers provided by various browsers such as mozilla or netscape.Mailing Lists
The department hosts numerous mailing lists, some of which are associated with specific courses. Instructors can request new lists by emailing techstaff.Spam
Mail in CS IMAP folders named "trash", "junk", "deleted messages" or "spam" (case insensitive) older than 30 days will be automatically deleted. If you don't want these messages deleted, move them to another folder.
All incoming mail is run through a
spam tagging system,
which tries to determine if a message is spam.
Email identified as spam will be deleted.
Whitelisted email
can bypass this filtering system. For more details, see our spam policy page.
Greylisting
Incoming CS email is greylisted.Automatic Reply: Vacation
If you're not going to be responding to your email for a while, you can use vacation to set up an automatic reply. This lets folks know you're not just ignoring them.Reading Email via the Web
You can use any web browser to read your harper mail. This is not meant to be a replacement for your normal mail client, but it's handy when you're traveling and a web browser is all you have access to. The university provides web access to your harper email at https://webmail.uchicago.edu This system uses your harper username and password. You can forward your CS mail to your harper account.Forwarding
If you would like to have email you receive here sent elsewhere, you can set up email forwarding.Port 25 Blocked
Many ISPs, including SBC, have begun blocking smtp (email) traffic that doesn't go to their smtp servers. In other words, you cannot use the CS department's mail server to send mail from home.Two solutions to this are 1) use the ISPs mailserver for outgoing mail, or 2) contact your ISP to be added to a exception list, and not be blocked.