Using CS Mail

So you now have an account on the CS computers and you want to start sending and receiving mail. Great. Here are a few things you need to know.

Your mail address is username@cis.fiu.edu.

To have a CS account you also must have a UCS "campuswide" account. When you get this account you get a mailbox on the campus system also. Mail sent to username@fiu.edu goes to the campus mailbox. This is completly seperate from the CS mailbox.

CS hosts are hosts such as miami, dizzy, grads, n5, scs, and schema. UCS hosts are solix, serss1, serss0, xlab1.

You will want to be sure to check both your UCS mail and CS mail. By logging into miami or grads and running pine there you can check your CS mail (mail addressed to username@cis.fiu.edu). By logging into solix or serss1 and running pine you can check your UCS mail (mail addressed to username@fiu.edu).

If you send mail from to a user without specifing a domain name (ie just send mail to username) then it will get the domain name you are sending from appended by default. IE if you send to "username" from miami then the mail will be delivered to the username@cis.fiu.edu mailbox. If you send to "username" from solix it will be sent to username@fiu.edu.

See here for more information about setting up mail forwarding files on both UCS and CS machines.

See here for more information about the CS maildrop and various methods you can use to read your mail.

See here for information on how to configure pine to check both your UCS and CS mailbox.