Forwarding Email with Full Headers
Anytime a false positive is found (a message incorrectly marked as spam) it should be forwarded with full headers to abuse@egr.msu.edu.
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Email Forwarding
Forward Email from mail.msu.edu
Call ITS at (517)-432-6200 to setup msu email forwarding.
Forwarding EGR Mail to Another Address
Faculty, Staff & Current Students
If you would like to forward your engineering email to another email address, you first need to ensure that the other email address is not forwarding to your engineering account. If it is, a mail loop is created which will cause your email to fail.
Help & Support
The DECS Support Office provides walk-in, telephone and email assistance. Contact us for software support, account issues, equipment repairs, access to printing, consulting and equipment checkouts. For more information on the different ways the Support Office can help you, visit the Support Office page under the Services tab on this website. See the homepage for our current hours of operation.
Mozilla Thunderbird Setup and Configuration
Installation
Mozilla Thunderbird is installed on all of the DECS Public Lab Windows machines.If this is the first time Thunderbird has been run:
Moving Messages in Mozilla Thunderbird
An alternative to deleting messages from the Inbox is moving the messages to folders. To do this, the destination folders will need to be created. If you already have a folder or folders in which to place the messages, skip the folder creation steps.
Email Clients & Configurations
Mail Configuration
Listed below is the information you will need in order to set up your engineering email on a variety of devices/clients.Mail server type: IMAP
Incoming server: mail.egr.msu.edu
Security: SSL
Port: 993
Authentication is EGR username and password
Outgoing Server: mail.egr.msu.edu
Enable SpamAssassin or Allowlist/Blocklist Entries on Your EGR Account
What is SpamAssassin?
SpamAssassin is an email filter, written in Perl, to identify spam using a wide range of heuristic tests on email headers and body text.
Fast & Convenient
The College of Engineering provides email for every EGR NetID in addition to and independent of the MSU email system. Engineering email addresses are EGRNetID@egr.msu.edu. The engineering email server has a great deal of flexibility built in. This includes unlimited inbox sizes so that incoming email delivery is guaranteed against failure due to a limits placed on the size of a user's inbox. The size restriction on an individual out-bound email size is set very high at 60MB.
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