<p>Who else is getting a lot of spam in the Cornell accounts? I'm positive my account has the spam filter active. I called CIT and they said that it could be because the filters have not tagged the emails as SPAM yet. </p>
<p>That isn't really a good reason and so far, I find their uportal system slow and their email system pretty bad. I get more SPAM in this account that my yahoo and hotmail account combined.</p>
<p>No spam whatsoever for me so far. Have you been using your Cornell email address to signup for things? That would be the cause.</p>
<p>Nope, the only thing I've used my account for is The Facebook.</p>
<p>The addresses are pretty predictable, since its usually you could do almost any random 2 or 3 letters followed by a small number and come up with a result. So in that sense any spammer would just have to write a program that did that and append @cornell.edu to it. It wouldn't be that hard to do. Also, the addresses are pretty public anyway, and somehow yours got picked up. It sucks for you, I don't know what else to say, sorry.</p>
<p>If this continues, I'm going to call CIT again. They already have a cased for me. Worse case scenario is that they'll put a "super filter" for me. hahaha</p>
<p>Skip that Uportal junk and use Eudora and Bear Access.</p>
<p>yeah or thunderbird @ <a href="http://www.mozilla.com%5B/url%5D">www.mozilla.com</a>... it works great</p>
<p>But would Eudora filter out the spam?</p>
<p>thunderbird will</p>
<p>you can even set custom filters for certain words, senders, subjects etc. matching all, some, only, excluding, etc. very configurable for spam, and you get your email right on your desktop in a real program designed for it. no more using a webbrowser.</p>
<p>What are the incoming and outgoing server names for setting up Thunderbird?</p>
<p>Remember your netid does not include "@cornell.edu"</p>
<p>Edit>Properties: Click "Add Account"</p>
<p>Enter your name, and <a href="mailto:netid@cornell.edu">netid@cornell.edu</a></p>
<p>Select POP</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cornell.edu/search/?tab=people&q=%5B/URL%5D">http://www.cornell.edu/search/?tab=people&q=</a>
search your netid or name; scroll down; Default PO (at the bottom) is your incoming server. I don't like to use global inbox (1 inbox for all your accounts--yea, it's a good idea to set up your other email account to use thunderbird, you can get both through 1 program) but thats up to you.</p>
<p>Enter your netid as your incoming server name</p>
<p>Give your account a name like "Cornell Email" and finish up</p>
<p>Under server settings for the account you just created make sure to check Use SSL. everything else is up to you, but I like to set mine to leave my messages on the server until you delete them from thunderbird. That way you can access them remotely.</p>
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<p>Click on Outgoing Server to set it up. Your outgoing server name is authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu</p>
<p>enter your netid and select "TLS, if available"</p>
<p>(If you have more than one account and want to use different outgoing servers you can click advanced to add additional outgoing servers. After you do this, click "server settings" for the additional accounts you add, click advanced, and select the corresponding server.</p>
<p>adapted from and appended to <a href="http://classof2009.cornell.edu/forums/dispthread.php?thread_id=1730#45673%5B/url%5D">http://classof2009.cornell.edu/forums/dispthread.php?thread_id=1730#45673</a>
Any more ?s</p>
<p>Can you use microsoft outlook with our Cornell email accounts?</p>
<p>yeah but thunderbird is way better: free, more features, better spam blocking, less crap, open source for 3rd party add ons...</p>
<p>how come uportal is so bad? i mean, whats so great about these other things?? its just inbox, send message and store that u need, what else could u want?</p>
<p>uportal is not bad, its just easier to have a standalone client on your computer. no need to open the webpage, type your password, deal with the website reloading, etc. each time.</p>
<p>with programs like outlook, thunderbird, and eudora one can have access to all their previously recieved email while not connected to the internet, navigate between the inbox, composing, drafts, sent messages, etc. without requiring a website to reload, customize things like individual filters. It's equally simple, if you use the basics, but there are more options for the poweruser (or that the beginner can get a poweruser to setup for him or her ;))</p>
<p>Not being picky or anything, but uportal is slowly and more cluttered IMO. Maybe I'm just used to the old system I used, it'll take some time.</p>
<p>Try webmail.cornell.edu.</p>
<p>yes i confirm that towerpumpkin</p>