posted 04/04/08

We've recently seen evidence of widespread e-mail "phishing" scams by which fraudsters attempt to gain your UCSBnetID and Password. These messages purportedly come from UCSB Administration and ask you to reply with your netid and password.

Such messages are fake -- you should never respond to any such request. No UCSB organization will ever ask for your UCSBnetID and Password by e-mail.

If you've received and responded to such an email by sending your netid and password you must reset your password as soon as possible at:

http://identity.umail.ucsb.edu/

Increased Mail Storage

posted 03/27/08

We've increased mail storage limits for all U-Mail accounts. Undergrad accounts are now alloted 200MB of storage, while graduate student accounts are provided with 300MB.

Retirement of MyAccount Service - 3/27

posted 03/24/08

This week we'll be retiring the MyAccount suite of account management utilities. All of the tools available within the MyAccount system are now conveniently available within our WebAccess webmail service.

If you need any assistance with management of your U-Mail account or understanding how to access the various tools send a note to the U-Mail Help Desk or give us a call at 893-5542.

U-Web Support for Dreamweaver

posted 03/19/08

We're happy to announce that the U-Web service now provides official support for Macromedia Dreamweaver, the popular web site publishing program from Adobe.

For details on configuring Dreamweaver for use with your U-Web site check out our Using Dreamweaver information.

Planned Mail System Outage - 1/3

posted 01/01/08

We're scheduling a final outage of U-Mail messaging services to complete the work we've been doing over break. This last outage will last roughly 11:00pm - 3:00am, beginning on the Thursday the 3rd and continuing through Friday morning. We again apologize for these service interruptions, and expect this to be the last of these for some time.

Planned Mail System Outage - 12/27

posted 12/21/07

We're scheduling a second outage of U-Mail messaging services to continue the work we started earlier this week. For this outage we expect to be out of service from roughly 10:00pm - 9:00am, beginning on the Wednesday the 26th and continuing through Thursday morning. UPDATE: We've postponed this outage one day. Our updated outage schedule is for Thursday night through Friday morning. UPDATE: Access for 2/3 of our accounts has been restored, but there's another 1/3 that we're still working on. This remaining third likely won't be available until sometime this afternoon.

Planned Mail System Outage - 12/18

posted 12/14/07

U-Mail messaging services, including WebAccess and other IMAP/POP mail services, will be out of service from roughly 10:00pm - 1:00am on Tuesday the 18th of December.

This outage is to address recent performance problems with IMAP access. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

New Trash Cleanup Service

posted 11/28/07

This December we'll be rolling out a U-Mail "Trash Cleanup" service which will automatically remove any messages in your "trash" folder that are older than 60 days. The Trash Cleanup service will help manage your mail storage by cleaning out these old messages so you can be sure to have plenty of space for new mail.

Unplanned System Outage - 11/2

posted 11/02/07

Various U-Mail services were unavailable Friday evening from 5:30pm to 6:15pm due to a faulty piece of network gear. We've replaced the faulty component believe we won't have any further trouble with it.

WebAccess Upgrade

posted 10/25/07

This morning we rolled out a number of upgrades to the WebAccess webmail system. The major changes in this release invole the new "Account Tools" section, which provides modules for modifying your options for Spam Filtering, Mail Forwarding, and Vacation Auto-Reply as well as providing access to your U-Storage account. These new features will eventually replace their equivalent tools in the older MyAccount system.

For details on WebAccess or our other supported mail clients, see our "Using U-Mail" pages at:

http://www.umail.ucsb.edu/usage/

To learn more about our U-Storage service, visit:

http://www.ustorage.ucsb.edu/