LNF Mail Service

Migration Advices:

• If you didn't change your password since Aug 30th, 2007 you are requested to change it as soon as possible to use all new service features. You can change the password via web using this tool.

Description

The new IMAP server entails a full changeover of the electronic mail service for the LNF, some of the most interesting features are:

• New storage for email different from AFS home directories
• Access permitted (exclusively) via IMAP SSL protocol
• Specific mail disk quota (unified for INBOX and IMAP folders)
• Support of sub-folder and messages in imap folder
• Support of Kerberos5 GSS-API authentication
• Improved performance
• Connection parameters are valid inside and outside LNF

Connection parameters

Reading

Protocol: IMAP
Server host: imaps.lnf.infn.it
TCP Port: 993
Security: SSL
Server directory: ( NONE - Leave blank )
Authentication: LNF username & password OR Kerberos GSS-API

Sending

Protocol: SMTP
Server host: smtp.lnf.infn.it
TCP Port: 587
Security: TLS
Authentication: LNF username & password OR INFN-CA personal certificate

Kerberos 5 (optional)

Users who want to use Kerberos Authentication, need to configure Kerberos5 client for LNF.INFN.IT realm.

Then it's possible to enable the "Use secure authentication" checkbox to gain automatic access to imap without typing password and using Kerberos ticket.

On Thunderbird for Windows it's also needed to set "network.auth.use-sspi" to "false" in the "Config Editor"

(Tools --> Options --> Advanced --> General Tab --> Config Editor, filter by network.auth.use-sspi and double click on it to toggle the value).

Disk Quota

Mail disk quota is indipendent from home directory one (AFS) and include both INBOX and all IMAP folder. To check mail disk quota is suggested to use Mozilla Thunderbird with Quota Display Add-on. Mail disk quota is also displayed in Web Mail.

To request more mail disk quota use the Trouble Ticket (type Unix)

Web Mail

It's possible to access email also via web using RoundCube Web Mail

Forward

To manage forwards use "Filters" under Settings of RoundCube Web Mail

Thunderbird setup

Download and install Mozilla Thunderbird.

Create always a new account instead of modifying the old one to use the new imap service.

NOTE: Be sure to insert your username in the next fields (incoming and outgoing username) instead of the Firstname.Lastname suggested by the wizard!

Pine

Pine is already configured from Computing Services managed systems (lxgw, lxplus, etc.).
Configuration is not enforced, so be sure that your .pinerc does not override setup for inbox-path, folder-collections or default-fcc.

To use it from other systems, append the following setup to .pinerc in your home directory:

inbox-path={imaps.lnf.infn.it/ssl/user=USERNAME}
folder-collections={imaps.lnf.infn.it/ssl}[]
default-fcc={imaps.lnf.infn.it/ssl}Sent

Replace USERNAME string with your login username.