Getting rid of @uclink
Bernie Rossi from the CalMail team posted a message today about legacy mailing addresses on CalMail. Many people are still using user@uclink (or @uclink2, @uclink3, @uclink4) as their From: address in their email clients; some others got set up as user@calmail.berkeley.edu when CalMail first went into production.
All of these alternate addresses have been basically equivalent until now; you could use any of them in your From: address, and anyone sending you mail could use any of them to address you. They all wind up in your CalMail inbox. Going forward, most of this will still be true; mail sent to user@uclink will still be delivered to user@Berkeley.EDU. The change is that, due to anti-spam provisions in the mailing list system, you will need to subscribe to the mailing list with the same address you use in your From: address in your email client. There are mailing lists which have been in existence for many years which are filled with @uclink and other legacy addresses; CalMail’s current plan is to replace those email addresses on mailing lists in bulk. (Scheduled for February 28).
What that means is that if you currently have your From: address set to be user@uclink, on February 29 (happy leap year!) mail you send to (most) mailing lists on lists.berkeley.edu will not be delivered–it will be held for approval by the list owner.
The easiest thing to do is just to set your mail client to use user@Berkeley.EDU as your From: address. It looks nicer that way, anyway. Bernie provided rudimentary instructions if you want to do it yourself, or you can contact your LSCR support team for help. Note that if you do this before February 28, you may have the same problem sending to mailing lists until the change is made, so it’s best to wait until the end of the month.
