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In the old days, when everything ran on a pair of monolithic servers known as darkwing.uoregon.edu and gladstone.uoregon.edu, you could access almost any service by referring to the name of the system you were on. But now that we've consolidated and upgraded Darkwing and Gladstone to be uoregon.edu, server names generally refer to the service provided. For example, the IMAP server's name is imap.uoregon.edu, and the SMTP server's name is smtp.uoregon.edu While that's pretty straightforward, some have asked for a summary of the correct names to use when accessing uoregon.edu-based services. We're happy to help clear that up with this article.
Q. What do I call my account on the new consolidated darkwing/gladstone?
A. Refer to your "uoregon.edu account"
Q. What's my email address on the new system?
A. If your old email address was
- jersmith@darkwing.uoregon.edu or
- jersmith@gladstone.uoregon.edu or
- jersmith@oregon.uoregon.edu
you should begin referring to your email address as jersmith@uoregon.edu Mail sent to your username at any of the three old hostnames will also continue to be delivered to your uoregon.edu account for the foreseeable future.
Q. Can I drop the .edu from the end of my address? Or what if my email program ‘guesses' my email address to be jersmith@imap.uoregon.edu or jersmith@pop.uoregon.edu? Is that okay?
A. No. Just to clarify this by example:
jersmith@uoregon.edu <-- CORRECT and recommended
jersmith@darkwing.uoregon.edu <-- (deprecated)
jersmith@gladstone.uoregon.edu <-- (deprecated)
jersmith@oregon.uoregon.edu <-- (deprecated)
jersmith@uoregon <-- WRONG, don't use
jersmith@pop.uoregon.edu <-- WRONG, don't use
jersmith@imap.uoregon.edu <-- WRONG, don't useQ. I want to access my uoregon.edu email via the web. What page do I go to?
A. http://email.uoregon.edu/
Q. What's the name of the uoregon.edu IMAP server?
A. imap.uoregon.edu (see http://micro.uoregon.edu/email/ for additional important configuration information)
Q. What's the name of the uoregon.edu SMTP (outgoing email) server?
A. smtp.uoregon.edu (if you're connecting to your account from a commercial ISP such as Comcast, Qwest, or AOL, set your SMTP server to whatever they recommend, or run UO's VPN software as described at http://micro.uoregon.edu/getconnected/vpn_overview.html )
Q. What's the name of the uoregon.edu POP server?
A. pop.uoregon.edu (Note: we strongly recommend using web email or IMAP instead of POP.)
Q: How about web pages on my uoregon.edu account?
A: If you had a web page that was formerly at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jersmith/abc.html or http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~jersmith/abc.html you should replace darkwing.uoregon.edu or gladstone.uoregon.edu with www.uoregon.edu and begin referring to that same web page as http://www.uoregon.edu/~jersmith/abc.html
Old links to Darkwing or Gladstone: Your old URLs will continue to work for the foreseeable future, but you should begin updating any references to your web page to www.uoregon.edu instead.
Q. What about dropping the whole darkwing/gladstone/www thing entirely and using URLs such as http://uoregon.edu/~jersmith/abc.html instead?
A. Please do not do that; in the future it may result in your uoregon.edu web pages becoming inaccessible. Here are some examples of correct and incorrect URLs:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~jersmith/abc.html <-- CORRECT and recommended
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jersmith/abc.html <-- (deprecated)
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~jersmith/abc.html <-- (deprecated)
http://uoregon.edu/~jersmith/abc.html <-- WRONG, don't use
Q. I use ssh to do work at the percent sign or dollar sign shell prompt. What name should I use for that?
A. You'd ssh to shell.uoregon.edu
Q. How/where do I change my password for my uoregon.edu account?
A. Go to https://password.uoregon.edu/ After you change your password, please allow 15-30 minutes for your new password to be fully activated.
Q. What happens to mailing lists on lists.uoregon.edu?
A. They continue to be served from lists.uoregon.edu.
Q. What name should I use when transferring files to my uoregon.edu account via FTP?
A. You should not use FTP. FTP exposes your password to sniffing (network interception). Use SCP or SFTP instead (common clients are SSH Secure Shell File Transfer client and Fugu).When using SCP or SFTP, you should connect to shell.uoregon.edu
Please contact Joe St Sauver (joe@uoregon.edu).