username@med.mcgill.ca,
where username is made up from your family name
and your expected year of graduation.
The top-level domain name
of ca means Canada.
Every McGill medical and dental
student is given a personal Medcor e-mail account.
The corresponding e-mail address is of the form
username@med.mcgill.ca,
where username is made up from your family name
and your expected year of graduation.
The top-level domain name
of ca means Canada.
Your Medcor e-mail account is handled by a Unix server
named castle.med.mcgill.ca.
The server can handle both POP and IMAP protocols;
the IMAP protocol is recommended.
Each student can use up to 5 MB (megabytes) of disk space on the server. That's enough for hundreds or thousands of e-mail messages - fewer, of course, if they contain big attachments.
Backups of information on the server are not guaranteed, so it's recommended that you make your own copies of important messages.
Note that automatic forwarding of your Medcor e-mail to another address is not currently possible.
Here is
general information on what e-mail is and how it works.
Instructions are available on the Medcor home page for setting up Netscape, setting up Eudora and setting up Outlook Express as e-mail clients.
If you use an Internet Service Provider (ISP) other than McGill's DAS, you must specify your ISP's mail server as your outgoing mail server, while specifying Medcor's server as your incoming mail server.
You can also use Medcor's WebMail Web interface for e-mail.
When reporting problems in person, it helps if you have your McGill ID card available.
When you first get your account, you should reset your e-mail password as soon as possible using the Web-based form provided, and you should change it occasionally after that. You'll also have to change the password in your e-mail client if it's stored there. Note that your e-mail password must be changed separately from the password you use to login to the computers in the lab.
Keep your password private.
Here are
some tips for good passwords.
Beware of viruses! Computer viruses can be transmitted via e-mail, in attachments. Don't open any attachment unless you know whom it's from and what it is. Before opening any Microsoft Word document, make sure Macros are disabled.
Here is some
further information about viruses and how to avoid them.
