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Configuration of Mail Service
Work in progress!
The following settings apply to the mail service of the Institute of Mathematics.
Please contact the system administration (staff) with any problems concerning the mail service
Sending mails - settings for the outgoing SMTP Server
For mail.math.tu-berlin.de use the following settings in your mail program for sending mails (settings for the outgoing server). You have to configure an encrypted connection with
STARTTLS (not SSL/TLS!)
and
"no authentication".
For connections without SSL, please select the value "None" under "Connection Security" and also set "no authentication".
Both "25" and "587" (for STARTTLS) can be used as port.
Reading mail - IMAP, POP and SSL
Mozilla Thunderbird
Please accept the security certificate of our mail server at your first login.
alpine (former pine)
The command line tool alpine reads its preferences from a file called .pinerc in your home directory. Edit this file. You have to setup a variable called "inbox-path" in this file that is often empty. Search the variable and change it to
inbox-path={mail.math.tu-berlin.de/ssl/user=your_user_name/novalidate-cert}INBOX
Replace "your_user_name" with the login name of your account at Institute of Mathematics. Alpine will ask you for your password at start of program.
mutt
For mutt edit a file called .muttrc in your home directory. You have to configure settings for the two variables "folder" and "spoolfile" . They ensure that you access the mailboxes via IMAP.
set spoolfile="imaps://your_user_name@mail.math.tu-berlin.de/"
set folder="imaps://mail.math.tu-berlin.de/"
Replace "your_user_name" by the login name of your account at Institute of Mathematics. You should also make sure that the correct domain is attached to the mathematics mail addresses. Configure the following line in .muttrc:
set hostname=math.tu-berlin.de
At first start of mutt accept the certificate of the mail server!