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In order to send mail or submit online forms your email preferences must be filled in correctly. If your user identity and email preferences are not filled in an "error alert" message may occur. It isn't just that they have to be filled in, they must be filled in correctly. If not, several things could happen. For instance, your message could contain someone elses email address (such as whomever sat at this computer before you) or, worse yet, might never be sent. Most likely you would never know. Being the wise Power Navigator that you are, you check and change the preferences each time you sit at a new computer. How you ask? Why like so:It is possible to change the server identity to another host, versus the one you are currently accessing. This means you can attempt to receive your email from PTI on a lab computer, for instance. Be sure in the email preferences that you click the option to keep your mail on the server (versus on the computer you are using.) Again, be sure to delete this information before you leave or that computer will continue to receive your email.Have a permanent Web Based Email Address. It's free for life.
It's permanent. You'll keep the same address even though you are no longer a student with the University, if you
change jobs, or move to a new ISP (Internet Service Provider). It's also accessible from any Internet connected
computer, anywhere in the world. You can forward any and all of your mail on other ISPs to the web based address. You can register for different programs from any computer. Sometimes passwords are sent to an email address - you need to be able to access it from any computer, a web based address will give you that, as well as one more address to use. If you can get to the Web, you can get to your mail.
Set your mail to accept text only messages and/or your mail to accept attachments as links instead of inline. This speeds the download time up and the memory storage down. This is also a security issue. An HTML mail-message can be set so that it is linking to a gif/jpeg file, which has a virus in it. Text-only
mail-readers will not be hurt by this.
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