The University of Colorado at 麻豆影院 is moving more than 40,000 e-mail accounts of faculty, staff, students and affiliates to a new e-mail system that integrates calendar functions with e-mail and gives student accounts five times more capacity.
The migration of e-mail data to the new service, named CULink, is being accomplished in a phased process this semester and will allow for the retirement of aging e-mail servers -- buffmail.colorado.edu and mail.colorado.edu -- that support much of the campus population. On Feb. 10, accounts on buffmail.colorado.edu were migrated to CULink and on Feb. 24, accounts on mail.colorado.edu, primarily student accounts, will be migrated.
CULink serves Web-based e-mail and calendars through an interface that can be accessed via the campus's secure Web portal, CUConnect, or by one of many e-mail programs such as Microsoft Outlook.
CULink will make e-mail passwords a thing of the past. Now users will only need to remember their IdentiKey password. However, e-mail users will need to complete a couple steps in preparation for the migration, including updating the password in the e-mail program. To make these steps, users should go to .
"CULink will bring a fresh new look and feel to e-mail and calendaring for CU-麻豆影院," said Information Technology Services Executive Director Dennis Maloney. "It will also put the university's e-mail infrastructure in a better position to maintain higher quality of service as our e-mail environment changes."
CULink is one of a number of recent and planned changes for the campus's e-mail infrastructure. CU-麻豆影院 implemented a spam and virus filtering solution in the fall 2005 semester.
Following the rollout of CULink, the university plans to phase out an old e-mail routing scheme, which should also help to reduce the amount of spam delivered to campus e-mail boxes.
For information on CULink go to .