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== Configure your CalMail Math account name ==
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In order to use Calmail Math account, you need to remember that your Calmail user name '''username@math.berkeley.edu''' includes your Math login name and '''@math.berkeley.edu'''. Also the server to which you should connect is '''calmail.berkeley.edu'''.
 
  
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== Calmail Instructions ==
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=== CalMail Math Account Name ===
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[https://kb.berkeley.edu/jivekb/entry!default.jspa?categoryID=4&externalID=400 instructions]
 
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for many email clients on the UCB knowledge base.
 
  
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'''A potential problem'''
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In order to use CalMail Math account, you need to remember that your CalMail user name '''username@math.berkeley.edu''' includes your Math login name and '''@math.berkeley.edu'''. Also the server to which you should connect is '''calmail.berkeley.edu'''.
  
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The default web browser client for ''CalMail'' is ''SquirrelMail''. The default ''language'' in ''SquirrelMail'' is ''English''. With that default setting the text messages you compose will have
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=== CalMail Instructions ===
  
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Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
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There are [https://kb.berkeley.edu/jivekb/entry!default.jspa?categoryID=4&externalID=400 CalMail instructions]
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for many email clients on the UCB knowledge base.
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in their header irrespective of whether your message or a portion of it may contain higher Unicode glyphs (e.g., Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew,...). This will cause a number of mail clients to display your message incorrectly, including ''SquirrelMail'' itself which will display your message in the ''Sent'' folder filled with garbage HTML macros for each higher Unicode glyph you entered.
 
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Change your language in ''Options > Language'' to ''any'' language but ''English'' (e.g., to ''British'', ''Polish'', ''Russian'',...). Now all your text messages will be sent with the directive
 
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Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8
 
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which ensures that basically any mail client will display the text of your message correctly, including ''CalMail'''s own ''SquirrelMail'' that will now correctly display your message in the ''Sent'' folder.
 
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Changing the default language ''English'' to ''any'' other language in ''Options'' thus ensures that your messages are sent with the UTF-8 charset being mentioned in the ''Content-Type'' directive. It also changes the text on several labels and menu items in the ''SquirrelMail'' window to that language, unless your switch is from ''English'' to ''British''.
 
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An alternative is to use ''RoundCube'' mail client (the link provided on the ''CalMail'' web page). ''RoundCube'' sends all your plain text messages with
 
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whether your selected language is ''English'' (the default), or any other one.
 
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Note that in the ''RoundCube'' the default mode when you compose a message is ''HTML mark-up'', but you can always switch to the ''plain text mode'' by pressing the corresponding button in the ''Compose'' window.
 
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== Local Instructions ==
 
  
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We also have local documentation for some clients.
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=== Older Math Department Instructions ===
  
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=== Apple's Mail client ===
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Our local documentation maintained by Math users is [[Email | here]] and there is also some Calmail information [https://kb.berkeley.edu/jivekb/entry.jspa?externalID=406 here].
  
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Our local documentation is [[Email | here]] and there is also some Calmail information [https://kb.berkeley.edu/jivekb/entry.jspa?externalID=406 here].
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=== [[Email|Apple Mail client]] ===
  
 
=== Thunderbird ===
 
=== Thunderbird ===
  
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See our [[Calmail Thunderbird]] page; the Calmail knowledge base information is [https://kb.berkeley.edu/jivekb/entry.jspa?categoryID=4&externalID=413 here].
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See our [[Calmail Thunderbird]] page; the CalMail knowledge base information is [https://kb.berkeley.edu/jivekb/entry.jspa?categoryID=4&externalID=413 here].
  
 
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=== mutt ===
 
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Here is a page [[Calmail mutt | on using mutt with Calmail]].
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[[Calmail mutt | on using mutt with Calmail]]
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=== CalMail language settings ===
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Here is a user contributed page on [[CalMail language settings]].
  
  
 
--[[User:SteveSizemore|Steve Sizemore - Unix System Manager]] 16:19, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 
--[[User:SteveSizemore|Steve Sizemore - Unix System Manager]] 16:19, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

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CalMail Math Account Name

In order to use CalMail Math account, you need to remember that your CalMail user name username@math.berkeley.edu includes your Math login name and @math.berkeley.edu. Also the server to which you should connect is calmail.berkeley.edu.

CalMail Instructions

There are CalMail instructions for many email clients on the UCB knowledge base.

Older Math Department Instructions

Our local documentation maintained by Math users is here and there is also some Calmail information here.

Apple Mail client

Thunderbird

See our Calmail Thunderbird page; the CalMail knowledge base information is here.

pine/alpine

The Calmail alpine page contains rudimentary documentation.

mutt

Here is a page on using mutt with Calmail.

CalMail language settings

Here is a user contributed page on CalMail language settings.


--Steve Sizemore - Unix System Manager 16:19, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

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