Email

How to configure e-mail clients on Linux for VT Mail

• Thunderbird Mail - A mail and news client from the Mozilla Foundation
• Evolution Mail - The Personal Information Manager of the GNOME Desktop.
• Kontact Mail - The Personal Information Manager of KDE.
• Gmail - Google's free webmail service.

Note: If you are experiencing problems setting up your account or checking your e-mail, refer to Common VT Mail Problems.

Status of Virginia Tech Email

Virginia Tech currently runs a branded and presumably patched version of the Free Software Horde Application Framework's IMP for webmail. The email services have been slow to upgrade, with IMAP being offered only recently.

Alumni email services are being outsourced to Google. If the transition goes well, student and faculty mail may follow. The computer science department has already reacted to this possibility by moving people to their own, in-house, @cs.vt.edu addresses.