There are several options for you to check your email whenever you're away from Colby, whether over the summer, on weekends or vacations, or during study abroad.
Direct dial CAN work but often causes problems.
Both are available from the General Server or from the Web . If you are faculty or staff and have a Colby owned machine you will have one of these already installed. Connect General Server-Mac. Launch the telnet app. The major drawback to connecting to Colby using this method is that you will have to pay long distance charges if Colby is not a local call from your location.