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Faculty/Staff Email-Oct 2002
| •Our original central email service is a
POP/KPOP based service available to all students, faculty and staff at
Rensselaer. If people do not choose to
use this service, they are strongly encouraged to “forward” their email to
where they do read their email. We
have web and command line tools available for them to do this. This allows people to keep their USER@RPI.EDU
email address, but still use the email system of their choice. This also enabled me to extract the
statistics on who uses what for their email services. We also rewrite email headers from the
Exchange users to be from USER@rpi.edu rather than USER@WIN.RPI.EDU |
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| •Our initial deployment of Exchange was directed
at administrative users. Some of the
administrative divisions have almost completely switched over to the exchange
service while others have not. This is
often split based on the department within the division. The general pattern is when someone
upgrades their desktop and it comes under the support of the administrative
computing desktop support staff, the machine is added to the Windows 2000
domain and the person is moved to the exchange server. |
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| •The central exchange email service is not
currently being offered to students although it is available to faculty and
staff in academic departments, although we do not advertise this. This is due to the differing support
offerings between administrative users and academic users. Some academic departments are using windows
2000 domain for authentication. Some
departments do choose to run their own email service. We (the central computer center) generally
advise against this, but do not prohibit it. |
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| •We do have one faculty member in the school of
engineering who has switched to the exchange server. |