If you need to share files, this can be done by setting file permissions or send the files as a mail attachment. In certain cases, your supervisor or McMaster Security Services will be given access to any files or mail on CIS managed equipment, upon receipt of a written request co-signed by the appropriate Vice President. Off campus police will be given access to any files or mail on CIS managed systems, if we are served with a search warrant. If the police are seeking the correspondents of a person, we will not give the police any names but will suggest to the police that, if possible, we will send a copy of a police bulletin to the correspondents. It is not possible to put disk quotas on all of the common or shared disk space.
Mail is stored in individual inboxes before it is read.
All of the inboxes reside in a common or shared area of disk space. It is possible for mail to be delayed or lost when this area of disk space fills up. This can also result in adversely affecting mail performance for you as well as others on the system. You should save any mail that you wish to keep in mail folders or download to your personal computer. Unfortunately, if there are problems on McMail created by a number of people having large inboxes, CIS may have to delete unduly large inboxes without warning.