How to Check Your SEASnet E-Mail

When you first signed up for your SEASnet account you were required to read and agree to all statements listed in the SEASnet User Agreement. You are required to check your SEASnet email because it may contain important messages from SEASnet, your instructor, or your home department.

Starting Fall 2008, SEASnet undergraduate accounts no longer come with an email account. Undergraduate accounts created prior to Fall 2008 will still have an email account associated with it, but SEASnet will direct all correspondence to the email the student has listed in URSA. All faculty, gradudate student, and staff accounts will still have an email account associated with it. Faculty, staff and graduate students with SEASnet accounts are still responsible for checking their SEASnet email account on a regular basis.

Checking Your E-Mail in the SEASnet Labs

1. Use the desktop icon for ssh or x-telnet to a SEASnet server (grad, fac, or staff). Use pine or mutt to check your mail.
2. Configure the mail program (Outlook or Netscape Messenger) to pop your SEASnet email. The SEASnet pop server is "pop.seas.ucla.edu". The smtp server is "smtp.seas.ucla.edu". All mail read using Netscape Messenger is saved in your SEASnet home directory. Mail read using Outlook is saved in your roaming user profile.

Checking Your E-Mail Outside the SEASnet Labs

• Establish a connection to the internet (either by dial-up, cable, or DSL).
• ssh or use x-windows to a SEASnet server. Use pine or mutt to check your mail.
• Configure your mail program (such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, Eudora) to pop your SEASnet email. The SEASnet pop server is "pop.seas.ucla.edu". The smtp server is assigned by your ISP. Note: If you are dialing into BOL, you will need to use smtp.seas.ucla.edu to send email.
• Goto http://webmail.seas.ucla.edu to check your SEASnet email. This should not be the primary method of checking your SEASnet email; it should be used when you only have access to a browser. Please keep in mind that if you are accessing webmail from another network or computer, that popup blocking must be turned off for this site in order for you to accept the security certificate. Information about SEASnet's security certificate is available here.

Forward Your SEASnet E-Mail to Another Account

If you have another account you use more frequently, you can forward all your SEASnet email to that account. Keep in mind that most other email services do not allow you to receive email when you've exceeded your quota (such as Bruin OnLine, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.). If this happens you may miss important email messages. Please do not forward your email to an AOL account.

To setup E-Mail forwarding in your account via ssh:

1. Start a ssh session.
2. Once you are logged in, just type in the word forward.
3. When asked "would you like to keep a copy of the message in this account also?", type in the word no.

To setup E-Mail forwarding in your account via webmail:

1. Goto http://webmail.seas.ucla.edu.
2. Login.
3. Click Options at the top.
4. Look for and click Auto Response: Reply or forward.
5. Check the box in front of Forward?.
6. Type in the email address that you want your messages to be forwarded to in the box To:.
7. Click Finish button at the bottom.

If you need assistance please contact help@seas.ucla.edu