When Im traveling off-campus, is there any way to send and receive e-mail through the SIUC mail servers without having to make long-distance calls back to Carbondale?
Yes. Free Internet mail service is available from several sources. One is called Juno. This provides free dial-in access to a mail server at a large number of locations scattered across the country. A similar service is called hotmail. When you send e-mail, under Options there is an option for external mail. For the mail server address, type in saluki-mail.siu.edu, which is the access address for our mail server from off-campus. You can then read e-mail in your SIU mailbox, and e-mail can be sent. Q: Sometimes friends attach very large files, like images and word processing documents, to e-mail they send me, and I have problems trying to open this mail (with MIME types and so on). It also causes my mailbox to fill up quickly. Information Technology advises using something called “FTP” to send large files rather than e-mail. How do I “FTP” a file? A: FTP is an acronym for File Transfer Protocol. It was designed to allow computers to send files to each other across the Internet. Computer
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