0. When I send mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (username represents my friend's userid)

they dont reach. What is wrong ?

The webmail service of IITB is available at http://gpo.iitb.ac.in. However, is not a legal email address.

The correct email address of your friend is .

1. How do I setup pine to read my GPO mails ?

To set up pine to use central MAILBOXes at imap.iitb.ac.in as your mail repository do the

following (in the example below, the string n9005023 is the userid of the person trying to access the mailbox) :

1. Go to setup->configure
2. set smtp server as smtp-auth.iitb.ac.in/tls/user=xxx (xxx is your LDAP id)
3. inbox-path: {imap.iitb.ac.in/ssl/novalidate-cert}
4. now exit setup.
5. Now you should be able to access the GPO mailboxes, make folders on gpo IMAP server etc.

If you are using GPO mailboxes from any computer, all the outgoing emails would have the ID as

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . For example, if you set the pine at venus.che.iitb.ac.in to check your

mails at GPO and you have login-name 'hemantrm' on venus.che but the login-name 'hemant'

at GPO, then all the mails would go as This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

To change this do the following:-pine -> Setup -> Config -> Customized headers (it's somewhere at the end).

There, press enter and write the following -

From: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

and save and exit pine. Now all the mails would go as This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it even if I have login-name hemantrm at

the server from where the pine is configured to check mails at GPO.

2. What web browsers support squirrelmail?

Please click here to see.

3. How can I do secured login?

The webmail service of IITB is available at gpo.iitb.ac.in. For secure access mode use

https://gpo.iitb.ac.in and insecure access use the URL http://gpo.iitb.ac.in. Upon selecting

the secure mode, the self-signed certificate issued by the server would have to be accepted.

4. How much is the allotted mail storage quota?

The server space that has been allotted as of now is as follows:-

All User Categories - 1000MB.

5. How do I configure outlook express, eudora, kmail or evolution mail for my MAILBOX on centralized EMAIL servers ?

These EMAIL AGENTs require two key configurations:

[a] Access to mails received: The mails received for you are located on the

centralized IMAP server of IIT Bombay named imap.iitb.ac.in.

[b] Server which will accept your outgoing mails: Use smtp-auth.iitb.ac.in. Please

enable AUTHENTICATION and TLS. You would require LDAP id and password to send

mail via this server. For more information click here.

6. Why do I receive warning mails regarding virus mails in the attachments from

mail server even if I have not sent that mail?

It is very easy to fake 'From' address in an email. If the mail server finds any infected

attachement in the mail, it sends the warning to the 'From' address. In many cases

the infected machine which is sending such fake mails might use your mail address

in the 'From' field. Hence YOU will get a warning from the mail server regarding the

infected mail.