Please fill in the online application form . You will be contacted either through phone or email at the address you provide in your application. Note that in the latter case, your email address must be part of the utexas.edu domain. You can use any email program which supports POP3. Eudora and Microsoft Outlook are two examples of such programs.
Shell access is available.
User support is only available during working hours of the week. No support is available over the weekends. Now I have my email account set up. The same address is used for both incoming and outgoing messages. When your account is set up, a default password will be assigned to you.