BX:Mail

We run our own mail servers under the bx.psu.edu domain. Everyone who has a BX account can make use of the BX mail system. Your BX email address is <your_username>@bx.psu.edu.

Incoming mail for the domain is handled by a cluster of mail servers which make use of a separate cluster of antispam/antivirus scanning systems.

Mail that is "delivered locally" is delivered into your BX AFS home directory under the Maildir/ directory.

Accessing your BX Email

There are four ways to access your BX email.

Note: We NO LONGER support the POP protocol for mail access. Any resonably modern email client should support IMAP.

IMAP

Currently, the only mail-specific protocol we support is IMAP.

General Settings

• IMAP Server (Incoming): imap.bx.psu.edu, port 993 with SSL
• SMTP Server (Outgoing): smtp.bx.psu.edu, port 587 (submission), Authentication with TLS

Mail client specific settings

• Thunderbird under Linux
• Pine/Alpine
• OS X Mail.app

Webmail

There are two webmail systems available -

• SquirrellMail, which is a lightweight webmail system
• Horde/IMP, which is a full-featured webmail system with LDAP address book integration, among other useful features. This is the recommended webmail system, as it is currently clustered and set up to be as HA (highly available) as possible.

Both systems can be found by simply going to webmail.bx.psu.edu and selecting which one to use.

Forwarding your mail

It is possible to forward mail sent to <username>@bx.psu.edu to another account. Contact admin-at-bx.psu.edu for details.

Accessing your Maildir/ directly

It is possible that some mail clients such as pine/alpine, mutt, etc are capable of accessing the contents of your Maildir/ directly. Example configurations are forthcoming.

Mailing Lists

We run several public and public mailing lists. For more information, please see the Mailman list page.