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Joe St Sauver, Ph.D.
Director, User Services and Network Applications
joe@uoregon.edu
As noted in previous issues of Computing News*, we are in the process of shutting down OpenVMS service on oregon.uoregon.edu, including WebMail, or "black" web email. Oregon's been a great email host for many years, but unfortunately the time has come to move beyond OpenVMS. If you're still using a POP or IMAP mail reader such as Eudora or Outlook to access email on oregon.uoregon.edu, we'll be contacting you to ask that you move your email over to Darkwing (faculty/staff) or to Gladstone (undergraduates).
Q I don't know if I have an account
on Darkwing (or I need help resetting my password on Darkwing)
A Microcomputer Services can help you
with that. They're in 151 McKenzie Hall (346-4412).
Q Can I forward mail that's sent
to my old oregon.uoregon.edu address to my new
darkwing.uoregon.edu (or gladstone.uoregon.edu) account?
A Yes. You can set forwarding from your
Oregon account to your Darkwing (or Gladstone) account by visiting the forwarding
web page at http://password.uoregon.edu/forward/
One caution: if you have historically forwarded your Darkwing mail to your Oregon account, be SURE you don't accidentally create a "forwarding loop." That is, be sure to go to http://password.uoregon.edu/noforward/ to stop forwarding mail to Oregon BEFORE instructing Oregon to forward your mail to Darkwing. If you don't, mail sent to Oregon could be forwarded to Darkwing, then routed to Oregon, then reforwarded to Darkwing, then reforwarded again to Oregon, and so on ad infinitum. Ouch!
Q I think I still have an Oregon
account, but I never use it and never get any mail sent to it. Can I just
get rid of it entirely?
A Yes, please contact Connie French,
the Computing Center Accounts Clerk, at 346-1738 to arrange this.
Q My email program is still
set up to check my Oregon account, even though all mail that's sent to it
is being automatically forwarded. Is that okay?
A Once you set your Oregon email
to forward to Darkwing you'll definitely want to change your email program's
settings or configuration to STOP checking for new mail on your Oregon account.
If you don't make that change, we'll probably assume that you're still using
your Oregon email, and will end up pestering you to transition to Darkwing
or Gladstone even when you're basically already all set.
Q I have mail stored on my Oregon
account that I want to move over to my Darkwing or Gladstone account. How
can I do that?
A Lucy Lynch has been doing a great job
of helping users with that task. Please contact her at llynch@darkwing.uoregon.edu or
346-1774
Q I'm subscribed to mailing lists using my
old oregon.uoregon.edu address. After I move to darkwing.uoregon.edu or gladstone.uoregon.edu
the list doesn't seem to recognize me. Help!
A You'll need to unsubscribe your old
Oregon address from those lists, and subscribe your new Darkwing or Gladstone
addresses instead. Again, this is an area that Lucy Lynch, our postmaster and
listmaster, can help you with (email llynch@darkwing.uoregon.edu or call 346-1774).
Q I used to use the old "black/spidery"
web email with my Oregon account. I notice that I need to use the "green"
web email with my Darkwing or Gladstone account, and I don't like it as well.
A We
recognize that the green web email client isn't perfect. We have staff
working on a third generation web email client that will be substantially better.
However, that program will likely not be available immediately. We'd encourage
you to give green web email a fair chance--or try an email program such
as Thunderbird instead ( http://www.mozilla.org/ ).
Q What about stuff on Oregon other than email? I still
have some web pages on Oregon...
A We'll be contacting you about getting
those moved, too, we're
just focusing on Oregon email users first.
Q I really don't want to move off of Oregon -- can
I wait a while longer?
A While we'd like to allow that,
unfortunately the time has really come to finish the migration of users from
Oregon. We'd like to thank all
those who have already moved, and we appreciate the cooperation of those few
who are still left.
Q Once oregon.uoregon.edu's
finally turned off, what will happen to email addressed to oregon.uoregon.edu
addresses?
A That mail will be automatically delivered
to the corresponding account on darkwing.uoregon.edu.
Q I use some of the administrative
OpenVMS systems. Will this affect me?
A No, this affects users of the academic
OpenVMS system; users of the administrative OpenVMS systems are unaffected.
http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/fall2002/oregonout.html
http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/summer2003/oregongoes.html