- Home
- Email services
- Email help for students at the medical campus
Email help for students at the medical campus
About WebMail (IMP) and Pine
Students arriving fall of 2006 and prior:
Student accounts reside on Omega (omega.med.yale.edu). Omega is a Unix machine which offers Pine as the email package. For students who would prefer a web interface to Pine, the email package is WebMail.
Students arriving fall of 2007 and later:
Student accounts reside on Central Campus email servers (pantheon.yale.edu). Central campus email resides on a Unix machine (Pine is available). For students who would prefer a web interface, you can use WebMail.
For students who have Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail or Eudora installed on their personal machine (ie., laptop or home computer), email can be accessed via IMAP or POP. [When you're at the Medical School, you can still access mail on the public machines via Pine or WebMail.]
Pine and WebMail offer the same basic features:
- Sending mail
- Receiving mail
- Folders (for message storage)
- Printing messages
- Reply/Reply to all/Forward
- Address Books
Some ways they differ:
- Pine requires secure telnet to be installed (SSH); WebMail requires a web browser.
- Pine is text-based; WebMail is a graphic, point and click environment.
Things to consider:
- Because Pine is a text-based package, some of the commands are arcane.
- Attachments are particularly difficult in Pine.
- Attachments are relatively easy in WebMail.
- Attachments are really easy with Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail or Eudora.
- Switching between the email programs is relatively easy; all messages and folders appear in either place, if you use IMAP.
- Address books are unique to the application they were created within.
- WebMail 'contacts' (aka address book) is a less full featured option product at this point.
NetIDs
Your email username is your NetID. You create your own password by activating your NetID.
- Activate your Net ID
- Change your NetID password
- Find Your Net ID
- Forgot your Net ID password
- Find dependant Net ID
- Change your Net ID security information
Your email address
For students arriving fall of 2006 and prior:
Your email address: netid@omega.med.yale.edu
Your friendly address: firstname.lastname@yale.edu
For students arriving fall of 2007 and later:
Your email address: netid@pantheon.yale.edu
Your friendly address: firstname.lastname@yale.edu
To find your friendly address, point your browser to: http://www.yale.edu/cgi-bin/ph
Type in your name. The 'email-to' line contains your friendly address.
Webmail for students:
Students arriving fall of 2006 and prior:
Point your browser to: http://webmail.med.yale.edu
Login to “Omega” server
Students arriving fall of 2007 and later:
Point your browser to: https://www.mail.yale.edu/login.php
One of the most useful preferences for you to set up is your PERSONAL INFORMATION. This helps the recipients of your email identify who you are by your friendly address.
- Logon to your Webmail account.
- From the icon bar at the top of the screen, click on Options.
- From the Your Information column, click on Personal Information.
- From the Personal Information screen, click on Edit Your Identities.
- When you are finished, click on Change.
Pine
A Kerberized telnet or SSH (Secure Shell) program is required to connect to both Medical and Central campus email systems (omega.med.yale.edu and eli.its.yale.edu). This software is already installed on all of the Medical Library's PCs; it is not yet available on the Macintoshes. You can download SSH to your own computer from Yale's Software Library.
For students arriving fall of 2006 and later:
SSH address: omega.med.yale.edu
For students arriving fall of 2007 and prior:
SSH address: eli.its.yale.edu
ALL Students:
Login/Passwords:
- Login: <your NetID>
- Password: <whatever you chose>
Printing:
- From Main Menu
- Type S for Setup
- Type P for Print
- Type 1 for attached to ansi
- Press return
- Confirms: "attached to ansi; configuration saved
Thunderbird, Eudora, Outlook or Apple Mail
Login/Passwords:
- Login: <your NetID>
- Password: <whatever you chose>
See the complete configurations instructions for these programs.
Remote Access via PPP Dialup Accounts
Using Other Internet Service Providers (Cable Modem, DSL, SBC, etc)
Regardless of what mail software you use, make sure the settings reflect the following information:
For Students Arriving Fall of 2006 and prior:
Mail Server: omega.med.yale.edu
SMTP server (outgoing): mail.yale.edu (use SSL with Authentication – see http://www.yale.edu/its/email/howdoi/email-config.html for detailed instructions OR use the smtp server provided by your ISP while connected to the Yale VPN
Server Configuration: Check IMAP or POP
IMAP Mailbox Location Prefix: ~/Mail/
SSL or TLS: make sure this is checked
For Students Arriving Fall of 2007 and later:
Mail Server: netid.mail.yale.edu (each person substitutes their unique netid)
SMTP server (outgoing): mail.yale.edu (use SSL with Authentication – see http://www.yale.edu/its/email/howdoi/email-config.html for detailed instructions OR use the smtp server provided by your ISP while connected to the Yale VPN
Server Configuration: Check IMAP or POP
SSL or TLS: make sure this is checked.
