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Personal computers and all central computers at Dartmouth have electronic
mail (e-mail) programs that let you compose and send messages and read messages
sent to you. When you send an electronic mail message, it is usually delivered
within minutes to the electronic mailbox file belonging to the recipient.
BlitzMail is the supported e-mail program at Dartmouth. If you choose
to use a different e-mail application, such as ThunderBird,
Eudora, Outlook Express, etc., you can get directions
for configuring it; see E-mail.
It is recommended that you use IMAP instead of the POP3 protocol.
It is quite easy to exchange mail with people at Dartmouth. The Dartmouth
Name Directory (DND) contains the names and electronic mail addresses of all
students, faculty, and staff at Dartmouth. If you want to send electronic mail
to someone at Dartmouth, generally all you need to know is their name; the DND
supplies the complete electronic mail address automatically.
You can also exchange electronic mail messages with people throughout the
United States and around the world. Our mail system connects to national and
international networks that relay electronic mail messages to thousands of
universities, corporations, and institutions. To find out the electronic mail
address of someone off campus, you can often use one of the electronic "phone
books" available on the World Wide Web. To learn more about connecting to and
using these services, contact the Computing Help Desk at 646-2999 and select
from the options provided, send electronic mail to help@dartmouth.edu, or contact your department's computing
support office.
As with all mail systems, electronic mail service at Dartmouth has a
Postmaster. Postmaster is a group of people who can help you if you have
problems with electronic mail or if messages are not delivered as you expected.
Send electronic mail describing your e-mail problem to Postmaster and a team member will
get back to you.
The privacy of electronic mail is somewhere between that of a letter and a
postcard. Electronic mail is not entirely confidential. On occasion, the
Postmaster may have to gain access to a message to determine if something is
wrong with the address, or the message may be delivered inadvertently to the
wrong address. Also, it is possible for electronic mail accounts to be
misused if the passwords are revealed. Therefore, please guard your password!
Do not give it to anyone!
Passwords
Your DND password is used to access a wide array of services, including
e-mail, research materials, and administrative services. Therefore, you must
protect your password by using some basic rules when composing your
password.
Your password must conform to the following criteria:
- It should be eight characters long using only numbers and upper- and
lower-case letters.
- There can be no more than four characters in sequence (e.g., "12345" or
"abcde" are not allowed).
- It must contain at least five different characters (e.g., "2a3a2a3a" only
contains three different characters so it is not allowed).
- It cannot be a word found in the dictionary (e.g., "password").
- It cannot be a reversal of a word found in the dictionary (e.g.,
"drowssap").
- It cannot be a word found in the dictionary plus one additional character
either before or after the word (e.g., "xalgebra" or "algebrax").
- It cannot be a word found in the dictionary with numbers substituted for
look-alike letters (e.g., "passw0rd" or "pa55word").
- It cannot be a word found in the dictionary minus any punctuation, symbols,
or numbers (e.g., "oclock" or "soninlaw").
BlitzMail
BlitzMail is the electronic mail program developed at Dartmouth.
BlitzMail software is available on the Software Downloads Web page and from the Student Computing Help
Desk in 172 Carson Hall. BlitzMail can be distributed freely to anyone
at Dartmouth.
For more information, see Getting Started with BlitzMail.
Note: If you are a new student entering in September 2007
and you purchase a personal computer through Dartmouth, your computer's hard
drive will have the necessary BlitzMail software already
installed.
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