Email Accounts

As a Lander student, you will need an email account, and you are encouraged to use your Lander email account assigned to you at registration. Emails to the class from your instructor go to your Lander email address by default from the class roster. Information about your Lander email account is available at

http://www.lander.edu/its/policies/policy_student_email.html .

Your email account information is listed under the ``My Profile'' section in Bearcat Web. Your default password should be your birth date in as yyyymmdd, (i.e., June 10, 1987 = 19870610).

The Office of Computing Services has set up a server whereby you can check your email on the following Web page:

https://exchange.lander.edu

Instructions for configuring your mail client such as Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express are described at

http://www.lander.edu/its/faculty-staff/tlc/PDFFiles/MailboxMaint.pdf

If you are on campus and you need further help with Lander email, you may obtain help from Lander's ITS (Lander's Information Technology Services) or from the Computer Labs in Jackson Library or Laura Lander Hall.

When you use email, please observe the following guidelines:

1. Include a clear and precise subject-line. When the subject box is left blank or when the subject is not specific enough (as in such subjects as ``test,'' ``reply'' ``problem,'' or ``question''), the message is sometimes rejected by the proposed receiver's SPAM filter or the recipient.
2. Important: Include your name, class, and section in the message body even though your email address may be in the ``From'' line in the message header. For confidentiality reasons, I normally do not reply to anonymous email, and I cannot confidentially reply to email sent from a different account than that held by the student, for example email sent from accounts of friends or relatives.
3. Do not use all capital letters, as this is the Internet convention for screaming or angry content.
4. A good short summary of professional practice for email is provided by Emailreplies.com:
   

   http://www.emailreplies.com/
   

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