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Telecommunications runs a general timesharing service offered to faculty and staff of central offices and to students of the following schools at the University. <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080610080959/http://www.dental.upenn.edu/">The School of Dental Medicine</a> </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080610080959/http://www.gse.upenn.edu/">The Graduate School Of Education</a> </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080610080959/http://www.upenn.edu/gsfa/">The School of Design</a> </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080610080959/http://www.med.upenn.edu/">The School Of Medicine</a> </li> </ul> <p> Other schools in the University have different <a href="email.html">administrative procedures</a> for acquiring an account. </p> <p> If your department or school is interested in acquiring email services on the ISC Networking and Telecommunications server, please contact <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080610080959/mailto:new-accounts@pobox.upenn.edu">new-accounts@pobox.upenn.edu</a>. </p> <p> <br> <h4>ELIGIBILITY:</h4> Any <b>student </b> enrolled in the above schools can <b>create</b> their own <b>account</b> on our server and any user with an existing account can perform certain account management functions like changing the password for that account, setting a vacation message, setting a forwarding address and querying for current disk usage by using an authenticated <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080610080959/https://rosetta.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/websec/websec_authform?app=acctsrvcs">web application</a>. You must know your PennKey and password to use this application. <p> <br> <h4>SERVICES OFFERED:</h4> <ul> <li><b>Electronic mail</b>, which can be accessed by a wide variety of tools: <dl> <dt>IMAP using <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080610080959/http://www.upenn.edu/computing/product/">products such as Netscape Communicator</a> <dd>IMAP clients offer the greatest functionality and the most natural user interface for the vast majority of users. <dt>POP using <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080610080959/http://www.upenn.edu/computing/product/">products such as Eudora</a> <dd>POP is an older protocol, still highly useful for users who spend most of their time on just one computer but disconnected from the network. For example, someone travelling with a laptop connecting briefly via modem once or twice per day. <dd>POP is an older protocol, still highly useful for users who spend most of their time on just one computer but disconnected from the network. For example, someone travelling with a laptop connecting briefly via modem once or twice per day. <dt>Web-based using <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080610080959/https://rosetta.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/websec/websec_authform?app=webmail-isc">IMAP-based webmail tools</a> <dd>Web-based tools offer true location independence with no software installed or configured on the local desktop. However, they typically offer an uglier interface, slower performance, and less functionality than other interfaces, so they are generally only used as a backup when travelling. In addition to reading your mail, certain account management tools like changing your password, setting vacation messages, setting a forwarding address and querying for current disk usage are also available through this web interface. <dt>Handheld devices <dd>BlackBerry, PalmOS and Windows Mobile 5/6 can do email synchronization with Pobox for an additional <a href="/web/20080610080959/http://www.upenn.edu/computing/isc/networking/rates/data/email.html">fee</a>. Devices running POP or IMAP clients can access email at no extra charge. <dt>Host-based using products such as Pine and Mutt. <dd>For those who are comfortable logging directly into a UNIX machine with a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080610080959/http://www.upenn.edu/computing/product/"> terminal emulation package</a>, host-based mail programs offer a character-based interface that offers high speed and reasonable functionality, with excellent location independence. Elm is no longer available as July, 2004. Pine and Mutt is no longer available as of May 5th, 2008 </dl> All electronic mail is <a href="virus-scanning.html">scanned for viruses</a>. Users can also opt to use server-side <a href="spam-filtering.html">spam filtering</a> of their electronic mail. </li> <li>User@upenn.edu addressing is included, in addition to @pobox.upenn.edu addresses and the option of other hosted domains.</li> <li><b><a href="/web/20080610080959/http://www.upenn.edu/computing/email/forward-only.html/">Forward-only accounts</a></b></dt> </li> <li><h4>Note: As of April 1st, 2008 personal homepages are no longer supported</h4>  <li><b>UNIX</b>, access to a Unix environment for general purpose computing (e.g. telnet, ftp), including an initial <b>250 MB disk allocation</b> (includes all files, including electronic mail messages saved and received but waiting to be read). Please see our document on <a href="quotas.html">quota management</a>. 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