Email

FIT user email address

FIT employees have an account on the Unix faculty employee server kazi.fit.vutbr.cz. Their official email address is:

login@fit.vut.cz (primary)
login@fit.vutbr.cz (secondary)

FIT students have an account on the faculty student mail server fiona.fit.vut.cz. All student email arrives on this server. The email address of a FIT student is:

login@stud.fit.vut.cz

This address is the official address of the FIT student and all emails related to FIT studies will be delivered to it. According to the Study and Examination Rules, students must use this address for electronic communication with the faculty.

Unix account is used to login (without domain) (see student's account and data security).

Reading email

There are several options to read your email:

1. Keep the mail on the server eva and read it locally using mutt or alpine - after login in with ssh (in Windows use Putty).
2. Keep the mail on the server eva and read it remotely by a program that can communicate with the IMAP4 server (Mozilla Thunderbird, Outlook, Android/K9-Mail, etc.). If you do not want or cannot use the IMAP4 client, you can use Web email https://webmail.fit.vut.cz.
3. You can redirect mail to another server using https://webmail.fit.vut.cz using Filters option. If a mail is not delivered due to incorrect mail forwarding, you may lose important study information and instructions.

Using options A or B your mail is accessible from any computer connected to the Internet, mailbox size is not limited, and incoming mail is filtered against viruses and spam.

Sending and receiving email

When sending mail via the BUT computer network, it is in accordance with the BUT Computer Network Operating Rules required the sender's address to be his/her official address. Use of non-official email server in BUT network is prohibited and is blocked at the BUT firewall. Sending of spam and other materials contrary to the principles of acceptable use of the BUT and CESNET2 networks is a violation of the BUT Computer Network Operating Rules . The size of both sent and received mails, including attachments, is limited to 32MB. On sending and receiving, mails are automatically scanned for undesirable contents and possibly rejected or discarded. If you are sending a mail that contains dangerous content, you will receive notification of rejection or discard of attachment. Notifications of discarded virus-infected mails are not send because there are even thousands of such events during virus or spam storms. An overview of undelivered mails and removed attachments can be found in the FIT information system.

Limits on mail

Mailbox size is not limited. However, we recommend that the incoming mailbox (INBOX) size does not exceed few GB. Older mails you want to keep can be moved to another mailbox once a semester/year. Similarly, we recommend keeping your outbox within reasonable limits. The reason is the load of backups, these mailboxes change very often, so it is necessary to back up them every day with differential backups, which are then unnecessarily large.

Parameters for setting IMAP4 client

Note: this may seem quite complicated. However both MS Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird support autoconfiguration.

Mailbox blocking

The mailbox is blocked whenever user account is blocked, e.g. when study at FIT is terminated. When account is unblocked mailbox is accessible again.

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