Email home
- Introduction to Email
- (includes Directories)
- Local Addresses
- Mailing Lists
- Junk Mail
- Bulk Mail Guidelines
- Email News
- Miscellaneous
- FAQ (Helpesk)
- Pegasus (A User's Guide)

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Welcome to the email pages. These pages contain details and documentation of email services at the University of Birmingham.

The sections described below are presented as separate documents. Each document is self contained, and can be printed as a separate document. The mailing lists section consists of two documents, one for list owners and one for list users. There are links within and between the documents.

To display a document click on the appropriate keyword which appears on the index on the left of the screen (the Home option returns you to this page). This provides a fast method of access and navigation between the documents. Items listed in italics which follow the Home option refer to frequently accessed subsections within documents.

For the benefit of new users of these pages, a description of each section follows. The full titles of each section are given, and clicking on these will lead directly to the appropriate document.

Throughout the documents, the <top> symbol can be used to return to the top of the document being displayed.

• Introduction to email
  This section gives a general introduction to email, explaining the basic aspects of addressing and features found in most email systems. It is mostly designed for people who have little or no experience of using email, although the later parts, including the section on directories, contain information which will be of use to others.
• Directories
  This subsection contains information about directories of email addresses both on and off campus.
• Local Addresses and the Central Mail Hub
  The Central Mail Hub is described here. The server provides central Mail Addresses, the ability to redirect your email to a new address and enquire about destination mailboxes associated with any central mail address. This section also describes the policy on use of offsite email facilities.
• Mailing lists
  Mailing lists are used as a means of contacting groups of people via a single address. At the University of Birmingham, we use Majordomo; this is a mailing list management system which automates management of mailing list and allows control of the lists to be delivered to list owners. Guides for list owners and list users are available. In addition, we use lists to provide generic contact addresses for departments and other organisational entities within the University.
• Junk Mail
  Junk email is unwanted and unsolicited email sent to many people at a time. Like its paper equivalent, junk email is generally considered to be a nuisance. This section contains information about junk email and advice for dealing with it.
• Email News
  Contains news about the Central Email Service.
• Miscellaneous
  This section was set up to contain miscellaneous information about email which is only of use to relatively few users, or does not naturally fit elsewhere. Currently it contains information about non standard Internet addressing (X.400, BITNET/EARN).
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
  This section contains a list of frequently asked questions about email at the University of Birmingham and gives advice and answers where possible. Most of the answers will point to information on other WWW pages. The page will be updated frequently as and when new questions arise which will be of interest to others.
• Pegasus
  These pages give instructions on how to use Pegasus and are illustrated with example screen shots.

Last Updated 4 February 2002. Please mail any comments to C.B.Bayliss@bham.ac.uk