General Information
From the users point of view, our setup is very easy. You don't have to learn many hostnames. You just have to learn the domain name, which is th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de. This is called our virtual service address, and all services are accessed through this domain name.
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Mail Setup
We officially support Mozilla Thunderbird with auto configuration. If you want to use another program, you have the configure it by your self. The required information is below.
Outgoing mail
Outgoing mail has to be send to itp.uni-frankfurt.de. If you want to send from outside our network (from home etc.) you have to enable TLS (Transport Layer Security) and authenticate with your login name and password. Port for submission is 587.
Incoming mail
For incoming mail we provide IMAP support. IMAP works with the mail on the server an does not download it on your computer. The server is 'itp.uni-frankfurt.de'. You have to use the SSL encryption, regardless if your inside or outside our network. Recommended is STARTTLS on port 143. Please make sure that you use plain text authentication. Some programs try to login with the complete email address, instead of the login name. Check this on failure.
Webmail
There also the option to use our webmail front end: https://webmail.itp.uni-frankfurt.de
Certificates
We have now official certificates and you must not get any warning.
Thunderbird
For Thunderbird we support autoconfiguration. After entering you mail address and password. Thundbird should automatically detect the correct setting. The final dialog should lock like this:
