UNET offers a standard University of Maine System account and several types of special purpose accounts. The special purpose accounts include administrative accounts and mainframe (CMS) research accounts. For more information on these accounts, please contact the UNET Help Desk at (207) 561-3587 or write to support@lists.maine.edu.
The standard UMS (UNET) account provides an e-mail address and access to the Internet via the UNET modem pools. Employees (faculty, staff and student employees on all the campuses) use their UMS accounts to sign in to the online human resources system. See the document list for information on how to use these services.
The UMS account provides an e-mail address. If the student or employee has an account id or user name of jane.doe, then the e-mail address associated with the account is jane.doe@maine.edu. This e-mail address will be used to send employees important information. It is incumbent on employees to either check mail on their UMS accounts or forward mail sent to this maine.edu address to another e-mail address they check regularly. See the Accounts document for more information.
Setting up Netscape (Mozilla) e-mail to use IMAP
Setting up Outlook Express to use IMAP
If you have more than one e-mail account, you may wish to forward your UMS account e-mail to another account. This will allow you to read all your e-mail by accessing just one e-mail account. To forward your UMS mail to a different account, go to web page http://mail.maine.edu, and click the link labeled "Change your UNET Account Mail Forwarding." Once the mail forwarding has been turned on, new mail coming to your UMS account will be automatically forwarded to the address you have specified. Mail received prior to setting the forwarding address will remain at your UMS e-mail address.
People with mainframe (CMS) accounts can use the mainframe mail system. This is an obsolete mail system and we strongly encourage anyone still using it to switch mail servers. Please contact the UNET help desk for assistance.
Please consult the CMS mail Quick Guide for instructions on how to use mainframe mail.
A common problem encountered when using mainframe mail is lack of disk space on the mainframe account. Refer to this troubleshooting document if you use mainframe mail and experience this problem.
Your campus computing center runs a helpdesk with staff who can assist you. In addition, UNET consultants provide help for UMS account holders: phone (207) 561-3587 or send e-mail to support@lists.maine.edu