SCS Email (Corvid)

About

Corvid is the main E-Mail system for the School of Computer Science. As such, all SCS members are strongly encouraged to use Corvid as their primary E-Mail system. The Corvid system features include:

• A 2 GB email quota.
• An easy-to-use webmail interface
• Server-side spam filtering
• Customized mail-handling scripts (using the Sieve scripting language)
• Mailing list creation (using Mailman)
• Support for both IMAP and POP
• Support for Microsoft Exchange

Accounts

If you are a new member of the SCS community, you should already have an account on the Corvid system. If you are not a new SCS member, you can contact the SCS Facilities Help Desk by sending email to help@cs.cmu.edu or calling 412-268-4231 to see if you have a Corvid account.

You can access your SCS email using a traditional email program, the webmail interface, or both.

To configure your mail client for remote SMTP:

If you're interested in information about how to access SMTP (outgoing) mail services from a non-SCS location or wireless connection, check our remote SMTP configuration page.

To access your mail using a traditional email program:

Windows Outlook Thunderbird Macintosh OS X Mail Entourage Thunderbird Linux Pine Thunderbird MH Evolution

Client Configuration: Click on your email client (listed to the left under the kind of machine you have) for step-by-step instructions on how to configure that client. More experienced users may find the settings below useful: Setting Value Server Name imap.srv.cs.cmu.edu Server Type IMAP Login Name your SCS login ID Account Password the password for your Kerberos "mail" instance Outgoing (SMTP) server smtp.srv.cs.cmu.edu Security settings supports SSL-secured connections

Useful information

• The address for the webmail server is http://webmail.cs.cmu.edu
• Set your mail forwarding using this URL: https://www.fac.cs.cmu.edu/corvid/lookup
• Instructions for creating your Kerberos mail instance and setting the password are located here