Whitman Email
Whitman has two different email services for our community. All of our students use the WhitMail system, powered by Google's Gmail. Staff and faculty use our Zimbra system. Faculty also have the option to use WhitMail if requested.
WhitMailIf you are a student or faculty member on WhitMail, the following guides should have everything you need to know about using, accessing, and configuring your WhitMail account. If you use a Gmail account as well, your WhitMail account will be used and set up in a very similar way. Accessing WhitMailThough you can always access WhitMail through the portal on the Whitman homepage, you can configure any email client program (Thunderbird, Mac Mail, Outlook, etc.) to access WhitMail as well. See our Tutorials on Accessing WhitMail via Email Client Programs. WhitMail FAQWant information about how WhitMail works, why Whitman uses it and other information about what Whitmail can do? Visit the WhitMail FAQ. Extra FeaturesThough Google has great information and tutorials on their website, we have direct links to several of WhitMail's most useful features here. Please see our guides on:
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ZimbraIn the Spring of 2010 Whitman Faculty and Staff were merged onto the Zimbra email system. This system allows you to access email, calendars and contacts on any computer through a web browser. Accessing ZimbraThough we suggest you use zimbra through its web browser portal to utilize all of its features, it is possible to set up Zimbra on any email client software (Thunderbird, Mac Mail, Outlook, etc.). See our Zimbra email set-up guide for more information. Zimbra FAQZimbra is a very powerful email system with a calendar that works right along side your email. See our Zimbra FAQ for more basic info on this system.
Extra Features
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Mailing Lists
Any memeber of the Whitman community (Students, Faculty or Staff) can subscribe to one or more of the Whitman mailing lists. For a complete guide on joining, leaving, and creating mailing lists, please see out mailing list guide.
Postini
Zimbra users have their email filtered for spam and viruses by Whitman's email filtering system. For information on configuring and chainging your Postini settings, see our Postini guide.
The Whitman Directory (LDAP)
You can configure any email client program to pull email addresses from Whitman's online directory, effectively adding all of Whitman to your address book. For information on setting up the directory on your computer, please see our LDAP guide.
Arriving & Departing
If you are new to the College, you can find information about getting started with your email account (and much more) in our Arriving at Whitman section.
For assistance extracting and exporting your email and other data from our systems, please consult our Departing from Whitman section.
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