Email FAQs for Department of Physics

Setting up your E-Mail client to check your physics E-Mail

Quick Server Info

Outlook Express

Other program setups can be found at https://hdc.tamu.edu/reference/documentation/?section_id=288. Note that this page's instructions are for connecting to Neo, so be sure to use the Physics servers listed in the "Quck Server Info" page above.

Physics E-Mail at home
Depending on how you connect to the TAMU network from home, the settings above may or may not work from home. If it does not work, more than likely, you will be able to RECEIVE email just fine, but cannot SEND email. If this is the case, follow the instructions for setting up SMTP-AUTH found at https://hdc.tamu.edu/reference/documentation/?section_id=288 - making sure to change the settings for the OUTGOING mail server only.

Using the LDAP server as an Addressbook

Check E-Mail using a UNIX machine
(coming soon)

Using Webmail
The Physics Webmail program is "Squirrelmail", a very popular open source project program from http://www.squirrelmail.org/. It is most easily accessed from the department's main webpage ( http://physics.tamu.edu.

The Anti-Spam filters on the Physics Mail Server