Toolserver:Mail


 * Note: The e-mail system described on this page only applies to accounts created after 2009-01-28. If your account was created before this date, this page does not apply to you.

Each Toolserver account has an email address associated with it, stored in LDAP. Initially, this address is set to the address you used when creating your account. You can change it by running setmail on nightshade. This address will be used when administrators need to contact you, and mails sent to @toolserver.org will be forwarded to this address. Although it is possible to remove the email address from your account, we strongly recommend not doing this, as you will not receive mail from administrators to your regular email, and you will find it much harder to recover your account if you lose your SSH private key.

You also have a local email address on each Toolserver system (e.g. nightshade). This is where cron and other system utilities will send mail when needed. By default, each account has a .forward file which forwards this mail to  @toolserver.org. You can change this by editing or removing your .forward file. If you remove your .forward file, this mail will be delivered to your local account on the relevant server.