mail.fruitfly.org currently accepts Emails for following domains:
fruitfly.org
bdgp.org
bdgp.lbl.gov
dhgp.org
berkeleybop.org
berkeley-bop.org
Use any of those domains with your address (e.g. suzi@berkeleybop.org). The address is usually set in the Email client.
For legacy reasons, fruitfly.berkeley.edu and fruitfly.bdgp.berkeley.edu are also supported. Do not use this address any more; it may not work at some point in the future.
mail.fruitfly.org is best used as an IMAP server. With IMAP all mail will remain stored on the server and all Email can be accessed from multiple IMAP clients (including Webmail). IMAP Email can be organized into folders on the server similar to local disks.Additonally, all Email stored on the server is backed up every night to tapes. Receiving Email via the older POP protocol is also possible but POP usually downloads all Email to the local computer and doesn't allow folders.
To set up your Email client for IMAP, use following settings:
| Account type | IMAP |
| Incoming mail server | mail.fruitfly.org |
| Outgoing mail server (SMTP) | mail.fruitfly.org |
Outside of LBNL, using SSL for incoming Email is required! Check for an option "Use secure connections", "Use SSL" or similar. Sometimes this option is found under Expert or Advanced settings. The mail program should switch to port 993 for IMAP access (sometimes the port is not shown).
To send mail from outside LBNL or UC Berkeley Rubin Lab using mail.fruitfly.org, SMTP authentication is required. Check the outgoing server or SMTP settings for authentication fields. Use your usual username and password for Email access to authenticate. If possible, use secure connections.
Outside LBNL SMTP authentication is required. See the settings section. An increasing number of internet service providers (ISP) are cutting off port 25 that is used for SMTP access (Hijacked Windows PC's are often used to send out spam. Cutting off port 25 prevents those PC's from acting as spam-bots). Use the SMTP server given by your ISP to send Email. If your settings have your fruitfly.org Email address as sender, Emails will still appear as if they come from mail.fruitfly.org. At some future point, mail.fruitfly.org may accept authenticated SMTP over port 587 as well. Port 587 is usually not blocked by the ISPs.
mail.fruitfly.org supports secure connections with an official certificate from Equifax for every available service. If possible, use secure connections. For Email accesss outside LBNL only secure connections will be accepted.
For webmail, use https://mail.fruitfly.org (note the "s" in https). iCal also supports secure connections.
mail.fruitfly.org uses a anti-spam method called "Greylisting". If it has never seen an Email sender before, it responds with an temporary failure for a pre-set time period (currently 120 seconds). Legitimate Email servers will attempt sending the mail again and again (usually for 5 days). Spam servers usually will just give up and move to the next address. If the Email has been greylisted, it will arrive anywhere from 120 seconds to a hour (depending on the server setup of the sender). Once a greylisted Email has been accepted, the server and the address will be accepted right away for future Emails.
Alternatively, the sender server or mail.fruitfly.org may have a very large queue of mails that are processed first in, first out.
Go to webmail and log on using your username and password. There are several menu items at the top of the page. Select "Options". One of the options is "Change password". Select the option, enter your old password and the new one. The new password has to be entered twice.
In webmail select the menu item "Folders". At the bottom part of the page, folders will be shown with a button "Subscribe" below them (There is also a space with the text "Nothing to unsubscribe" or a list of folders with an "Unsubscribe button". Ignore that one for now). Select folders you want to see in webmail (or all of them) with Shift/Ctrl-click and click the "Subscribe" button. The updated page will show all the subscribed folders in the list above the "Unsubscribe" button. To make them visible in the folder list on the left, refresh the page in the browser or log off and on again. Mail folders can be removed from the left side list with the "Unsubscribe" button. Unsubscribing folders doesn't delete them.
Squirrelmail needs to know your personal information to create a correct "From:" field. From the menu items at the top of the page, select "Options". go to "Personal Information" and fill in at least the "Full Name:" and "Email Address:". You can use your preferred domain (see first question) for the Email address.
Server side filters will filter the message after arriving at the server before it gets delivered to the mailbox. With server side filters, messages can be tagged, discarded, rejected or filed into mail folders if they match one or several criteria (such as sender, subject or size) independent on the Email server. For example, potential spam can get sorted into a spam mailbox.
Go to the webmail interface and log on using your username and password. Select the menu item "Filter" and follow the instructions.
The vacation message is just a server side filter. One of the available filters is a vacation message. Set the Condition to "All" (ignore the other condition fields), click on the checkbox "Vacation" and modify the vacation message if desired. The vacation message will be sent once to each sender. If the person sends repeated messages, he will not receive another vacation message until a interval that can be set from the filter interface. To cancel the vacation message, delete that particular filter.
See previous answer.
Go to Squirrelmail for more information.
Usually it's easiest to request a quota increase. When using the Apple OS X Mail.app, deleted messages get filed in the "trash" folder and not deleted automatically. This may fill up the quota even though the mailboxes appear empty. Make sure to empty the trashcan.
In iCal, go to the menu "Calendar" and select the menu item "Publish...". Following dialog will appear:
Enter the "Base URL:" exactly as shown. Enter a reasonable unique description in the field for "Publish calendar as:"; this description will be used as unique identifier on the server. Do not use the default "Home"! Login and Password are your Email login and password. Select the appropriate options and click on the Publish button.
Go to the mailing list manager for a list of available mailing lists. Select the desired mailing list and follow the instructions.
Go to the mailing list manager, select the list and follow the instructions on that page.
For most mailing lists you will have to be subscribed to view the list archives. The mailman list manager software doesn't support masquerading Email addresses and limiting access to subscribers only will prevent spammers from harvesting the addresses. For the same reason, lists of subscribers are available to subscribers only. Archives can be accessed from the mailing list manager. Select the appropriate list and follow the archives link.
Send Email to netadmin at fruitfly.org