The day after you create your account, you can use it.

We support four different methods of accessing your account for email: IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol), POP (Post Office Protocol), Webmail, and elm.

At the mail.sas account Configuration Web Page, https://www.sas.upenn.edu/accounts, you can do various things including set up forwarding, create a vacation message, and manage the disk quota for your home directory.

IMAP

IMAP email clients only download the headers of your messages. Inbox messages are kept on the server, unless you choose to move them to a local mail folder. You can have only remote mail folders, or a combination of remote and local mail folders.

POP

POP email clients connect to your mail server and then download the messages in your inbox to the computer on which you are working. If you plan to only access your account via a POP client on one computer, you can set the client to remove your messages on the server once the client has downloaded them. However, if you plan to access your account from more than one computer and want to see messages you read while on the other computer, you should set the client to keep your messages on the server. If you choose the latter method, you will have to connect to mail.sas via webmail or a host-based client from time to time to delete the messages that accumulate, or you run the risk of exceeding your inbox quota and the disk quota for your home directory.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON POP AND IMAP

• IMAP vs. POP
• Configuring Your Email Client for Mail.sas

WEBMAIL

Through webmail, you can check your email via a web browser. Although good for checking your email when you are not at your own computer, it is not intended as a replacement for your current email client. You can access your account via Webmail at https://webmail.sas.upenn.edu.

ELM

1. Connect to mail.sas.upenn.edu
2. At the login: prompt, type in your username and press the <enter/return> key.
3. At the password: prompt, type in your password and press the <enter/return> key.
4. At the MAIN MENU prompt, type elm and press the <enter/return> key. You will then have access to your inbox, through the elm index, which looks something like this:

       Mailbox is '/var/mail/h/e/help' with 4 messages 
       [ELM 2.4 PL23-upenn3.3]
   
   1 May 2  Sarah Mack   (43) [Fwd: Mail.sas downtime] smtp
   2 May 3  Dr.  Smith   (20) Re: reception for students
   3 May 4  Bud Lewis    (32) Cost Chart
   4 May 5  B. Franklin  (33) Welcome to Penn
        
   |=pipe, !=shell, ?=help, /=search pattern, M=read MIME 
   message, I=directory a)lias, C)opy, c)hange folder, d)elete, 
   e)dit, f)orward, g)roup reply, m)ail, n)ext, o)ptions, 
   p)rint, q)uit, r)eply, s)ave, t)ag, u)ndelete, or e(x)it
   
   Command: 
   

5. For more information on using elm, please see Where can I find more information on elm?

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I KNOW?

• What is the mail.sas acceptable use policy?
• What is Penn's policy on acceptable use of electronic resources?
• What are the inbox and disk quotas on my mail.sas account?
• How do I check my inbox and disk quotas?
• What do I do when I am over the inbox quota on my mail.sas account?
• What should I do if I have exceeded my disk quota?
• How can I clean the disk space on my mail.sas account?
• What is "raisequota"?
• Why are there two disk quota levels on mail.sas?

Make a New Search

Last modified: Tuesday, 14-Sep-2004 14:33:54 EDT