E-Mail¶
At present, the univerity’s e-mail solution is Microsoft Exchange for most staff and Office 365 for students.
Using Outlook web access¶
The easiest way to access your e-mail (and calendars and contacts) is to use Outlook web access:
- Staff and postgraduates: www.outlook.soton.ac.uk
- Students: www.outlook.com/soton.ac.uk
Using GNOME / Evolution¶
The next easiest way to access your e-mail (and contacts) is to use the e-mail
client in GNOME - evolution. The fastest way to set it up is to open Settings
and click Online Accounts
.
- Click “Add an online account”
- Choose “Microsoft Exchange”
- Enter the E-Mail as yourusername@soton.ac.uk
- Enter your normal university password
Open Evolution and your e-mail account will have automatically been created.
Using other clients¶
If you decide to use another e-mail client you’ll likely want to use IMAP and SMTP for sending and receiving e-mails. The support in Microsoft Exchange for IMAP clients is very poor however (performance is appauling and the IMAP server is not very compliant to the RFC - surprising, no?). We thus recommend either using Outlook Web Access or Evolution, but if you really do want to take the plunge, here are the details:
- IMAP server:
imap.exchange.soton.ac.uk
- IMAP security: SSL/TLS (port 993)
- SMTP server:
smtp.soton.ac.uk
- SMTP security: STARTTLS (port 25)