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The End of AFSmail

  Alessandro Miotto, Judy Richards IT/DCI


When the central MAILSERVer became available for general use last spring, we announced that we planned to phase out AFSmail. The time for doing this is now approaching, with a target date of June 30th. If you are a pine user it is very straightforward to migrate to the MAILSERVer and you will hardly notice any difference.

So, for most afsmail users there are just two commands to execute:

If you have advertized your email address in the generic form (firstname.familyname@cern.ch) this change will be transparent to your correspondents. If people send mail to your afsmail address it will automatically be forwarded to the MAILSERVer.

Since it is so easy, why don't you do it now ? This will save us having to bother you again. In addition, in May and June various configuration defaults will be changed from afsmail to mail, and if you don't have a forward set from the MAILSERVer to your afsmail account, you could end up with mail arriving in your MAILSERVer mailbox without your realizing it.

(N.B. If you are using mail filtering utilities such as procmail or filter, please consult URL http://consult.cern.ch/service/mail/utils/filtering/doc/)

If you are not a pine user and need help, or if you have questions or problems, please contact Mail.Support@cern.ch.


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