The Office of Information Technology is preparing to release a new campus e-mail system that will be ready for faculty, staff and students by mid-March.
According to Tom Hopkins, executive director of OIT, the old portal campus pipeline raised the price no cost to $80,000. After this occurred, OIT began searching for a new student e-mail system and discovered Imail.
“Imail is a fully web-enabled product. Students who are accustomed to using Outlook or Eudora can still go to the mail server and use the client they are accustomed to using,” Hopkins said. “The system is a full-fledged mail system with an anti-virus system built in to it.”
The Imail system will provide students an option and a style menu on the top right corner, where individuals can choose 12 different options and 25 styles, which will let the user change the background image.
In the drop-down menu, “my options” there will be various options, including mail sending. This option will allow the user to forward messages, reply and save outgoing messages in a sent folder. Another option is the Web Calendar. This will help the users organize their schedules. Other options that the Imail system offers include message display, user info, signature, filters for routing messages, folders, address book and many others.
Imail will also have a virus scan that will look for viruses and, if possible, repair them before sending or receiving any messages.
In the left hand corner of the display screen there will be a “space used” and a “space allocation” to let the user know how much space is currently being used and how much space is left. At the top of the display there will be an area for advertisements and near the drop down menu there is a box that has the date and time.
There is a good deal of work that needs to be done with the security and other factors, but OIT intends to have the system available by March.

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