Last Modified: Tuesday, 11-Mar-2003 16:25:44 EST

Which Email to Use

There are (at least) three choices for email accounts for CSB personnel. These include:

1. CSB email account -- this comes with your CSB Core computing account, and is only available with a Core computing account.
2. FAS email account -- available free to faculty, staff and students.
3. Med school email account -- available for charge to faculty, staff, postdocs.

There is no guarantee that the information provided here about the FAS and Medical School services is accurate. For that matter, we don't even guarantee that information about CSB services is accurate.

Service provider:	CSB	FAS	Med School
Availablity and cost:	Free to members of CSB labs	Free to faculty, staff, students	$8/mo for faculty, staff, postdocs
Access:	WEBmail, secure IMAP clients (Netscape, pine, outlook, maybe eudora).	WEBmail, various clients	WEBmail, various clients
Advantages:	Local support; automatic with CSB account; more storage space	Better/easier spam and virus filtering; possibly better support	Not sure
Disadvantages:	Limited support; You have to deal with CSB bureaucracy.	Support is remote; You have to deal with Yale bureaucracy.	Support is remote; You have to deal with Med School bureaucracy; You have to pay.
More Information:	click here.	click here.	click here.

The Bottom Line

If you already have a Yale FAS or Med School account, there is no reason to switch to using a CSB account. If you get a CSB computing account for other reasons, you might want to forward any CSB email to your primary account.

If you do not have an email account and you are going to get a CSB computing account anyway, you might as well use the CSB email system.

If your only reason for getting a CSB computing account is to use email, you might be better off with a Yale email account.

Last Modified: Tuesday, 11-Mar-2003 16:25:44 EST