POP Mail Guidelines and Procedures POP Mail Guidelines and Procedures E-mail services provided by POP mail applications supported at SIUC have become a major communication vehicle utilized by students, faculty, and staff. These services provide for the centralized management and delivery of mail. This document introduces basic definitions, guidelines, and procedures associated with the e-mail services provided on the POP mail servers. In discussions throughout this document, e-mail refers to notes that are composed at one computer and transported electronically to be viewed at another computer. Mail client software refers to the client programs used to retrieve, send, read, compose, and delete e-mail.
Post office refers to the server machine on which mailboxes are defined.
Several mail transport agents are configured on the server to support a variety of mail user agents. Each Kerberos ID is given the option of having a mailbox assigned to it when it is created. The Information Technology Security web page provides more information on requesting Kerberos IDs. Listing POP Mail IDs All SIUC Kerberos IDs and their owner names and departments will be entered into a userid directory unless a request to suppress the information has been submitted to Admissions and Records. This list may be viewed and searched from the web .