If your email account was set up after September 2005 or you have had your email transferred to being stored on Hermes, then if you have problems regarding lost email or people unable to email you (rare) please contact The Computing Service Helpdesk (UCS).
For all other queries contact the departmental helpdesk.
Introduction
- Getting Started - email introduction The brief email introduction from the "Getting Started section".
- Using University Email
How to Read Email
DAMTP Provides various programs to read your email with
- Supported and unsupported email programs
- Hermes Webmail | DAMTP Webmail
- Thunderbird We recommend you use Thunderbird.
- Pine
- How to get pine to remember your password
- Mozilla
Mailing Lists
Email Operations
- Junk and unwanted email, what it is and how to deal with it
- Spam Filtering
- Redirecting your Email
- Automatic reply to your email when away
- How do I view the attachment
- Email Policy
- Email Settings
- Add a Signature
- Filter incoming e-mail
- Full Headers
Misc
- Forgotten Hermes password or Hermes password does not work.
- The university's email directory
- Changing where your @cam email address redirects to and opting it in or out of the online email directory
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Using pine, have local folders alongside email on Hermes
- Using thunderbird, have local folders alongside email on Hermes
- Picture of Damtp Email Server | Pictures of Hermes
- FAQ on Email for Windows users
Accounts set up prior to Sept 2005
This section holds additional information for people whose email accounts were set up prior to September 2005 and you do not use Hermes for reading their DAMTP email.