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Email service on pangea was terminated on November 1, 2007
Last revision November 8, 2007
As promised in news items
and numerous email announcements,
email service on pangea was terminated on November 1, 2007.
Pangea is forwarding email that it receives, or returning
it to sender if there is no forwarding address.
Forwarding service will end on June 30, 2008.
On this page:
What has stopped working?
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Pangea no longer receives email to be stored locally.
It is now operating in "email forwarding mode" only,
which will continue until June 30, 2008.
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If you specified an
email forwarding address
for your pangea account, then any email received for your
@pangea.stanford.edu
address is being forwarded.
If you did not setup forwarding, all email sent to your
@pangea.stanford.edu address is being returned to sender.
There is no "automatic" forwarding to
@stanford.edu
or other accounts. We don't know if you want to forward
or where to forward. You have to personally specify that
using the
Email Management
application of the
pangea account maintenance web server.
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Eudora,
Outlook,
Mac OS X Mail,
Thunderbird,
and other PC or Macintosh email client programs can no
longer connect to pangea to read or download email.
Pangea simply refuses all email client connection requests.
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Pangea
webmail
is gone.
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The
pine
program still runs on pangea, but it can only access
old saved email, and only until November 15 (see below).
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Email can no longer be stored on pangea's disks. Any saved
email on pangea that is not
transferred to another email account
by November 15 will be deleted.
What is still working?
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If you left email in your inbox or saved folders on pangea,
you can still get it until November 15, 2007. Then it will
be deleted.
You cannot use an email program to get your old email,
because pangea will refuse all such connections. You
must transfer it to another email account by
following these instructions.
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You can change the email forwarding address for your
pangea account, or set one if you forgot to do that.
Check this web page
to see where pangea is currently forwarding your email.
If it says "forwardneverset", then you forgot to set any
forwarding and email to your pangea account is being
returned to sender.
To set or change your pangea email forwarding, login to the
pangea account maintenance web server
and select the
Email Management
link in the upper left.
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You can permanently disable email forwarding from your old
pangea address. Pangea will then simply "return to sender"
any email received for your old address. Do this when
all your correspondents have updated their address books and
you are only getting junk mail from your pangea address.
To permanently disable email forwarding from pangea, login to the
pangea account maintenance web server
and select the
Email Management
link in the upper left.
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If you have left Stanford and your pangea account has been
closed, email can still be forwarded from your old pangea
account by your request until all forwarding ends on June 30, 2008.
Contact the
pangea system managers
to request such forwarding, change the forwarding address,
or terminate such forwarding.
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The School of Earth Sciences will continue to offer an indefinite
email forwarding service for special functional aliases,
such as "a65" or "climatesearch", even after email forwarding
ends on pangea on June 30, 2008. These aliases are now handled
by the server name "sesmail.stanford.edu". For example, mail
to the Mitchell A65 computer cluster manager should now be
addressed to "a65@sesmail.stanford.edu", which will then be
forwarded to the correct person.
Contact the
pangea system managers
to request such a special alias, change the recipient,
or terminate the alias.
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Remember that
only
email service has ended on pangea. Pangea will
still provide other services such as file storage, web page hosting,
and poster printing. Some people think "pangea is going away".
This is
not
true. Only email service has gone away.
What do I need to do now?
Help! I didn't pay any attention and now I have no email!
Don't panic, but don't delay any longer!
The detailed
instructions for email phaseout on pangea
tell you everything you need to do to switch
from pangea to another email account. The two most important
steps that you must take right away are:
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Setup email forwarding from your old pangea address to a new account.
Until this is done,
all new email messages sent to your
pangea address are being returned to sender.
See the instructions in the
"What is still working"
section above,
but before you proceed,
make sure your @stanford.edu account or other new account
you plan to use is
not
forwarding to your pangea account! Otherwise, you will
create an endless forwarding loop that will eat all your email.
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Transfer any messages in your pangea inbox or saved email folders
to your new account
before November 15, 2007
by following these instructions.
All email still on pangea's disks on November 15 will be deleted!
This includes your inbox plus saved mail folders from IMAP,
webmail,
and
pine.
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