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Upon registration of your account in your offices your Institute Lorentz email account will become active. Your email address will have the form <username>@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl
and can be accessed via a webmail service and/or though your favourite email client.
Open a browser and visit https://webmail.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/
.
In order to access your Lorentz Institute email folders via your favourite email client you must configure it with incoming server
Incoming server: mail.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl (IMAP port 993, connection security: TLS)
and outgoing server
Outgoing server: mail.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl (SMTP port 465 or 587, STARTTLS security)
personal-name=Bingo Bongo user-domain=lorentz.leidenuniv.nl smtp-server=mail.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/novalidate-cert/user=bbongo/ssl inbox-path={mail.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/novalidate-cert/user=bbongo/ssl}INBOX default-fcc={mail.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/novalidate-cert/user=bbongo/ssl}SENT postponed-folder={mail.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/novalidate-cert/user=bbongo/ssl}POSTPONED
Please follow the instructions here. Note that there is a typo in the SMTP settings. It should read mail.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl
.
Email forwarding can be achieved by modifying .procmailrc
in your home directory.
If you want a copy of your mail forwarded to another address, add: :0 c ! your_address@remoteserver.nl
If you want your mail forwarded to another address, without keeping a local (on our servers) copy add this: :0 ! your_address@remoteserver.edu