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Local Addresses and the Central Mail Hub Policies affecting use of Off Campus Email Facilities

The following summarises policies affecting the use of email addresses. Whilst these primarily affect students, staff too will be prone to some of the potential problems of use of off campus email facilities.

• The central email address will be used for all official email communications from the university and most departments. Some of these messages may contain important announcements, such as course work deadlines.
• Email may be directed to a server or servers of your choice (including commercially run servers elsewhere on the Internet). However, this is done at your own risk and the University cannot be responsible for the failure to deliver email any redirected email to an off campus address used in this way.
• Information Services blocks email from servers from time to time for security, junk email control and other policy reasons. If you are using a server that becomes blocked, it is your responsibility to rectify the problem either by transferring to one that is not blocked or persuading your service provider to rectify the problem.
• It is recognised that distant learning students may be more likely to use off campus facilities. Web interfaces are provided to nearly all servers on campus to make remote access easier (see webmail.bham.ac.uk). If other servers are used, the same conditions and limitations apply.
• Use of email is subject to the General Conditions of Use of Computing Facilities

In practice, there are very few problems with use of off-campus facilities. However, it must be pointed out that use of any server which is accessed via the JANET/USA links, or which uses adverts delivered via these links, costs the University money over and above our fixed network costs. This diverts resources away from other areas such as provision of computers on campus. We would therefore urge people to use local facilities unless your access will be via an ISP and not from on campus.

Last Updated 27 Jun 2001. Please mail any comments to C.B.Bayliss@bham.ac.uk