UC Davis Email - Davis Wiki

UCD Gmail

The campus has begun the transition to Google Apps. All undergraduates and graduate students will have a Google Apps Account while staff, faculty, and med center students will still be using the old geckomail indefinitely. The switch to Gmail will offer a much larger storage capacity, Google Apps, and other benefits. Users on the new system have their email addresses and the Google Apps account for life. The new accounts have approximately 7.3 GB of storage.

UCD Gmail (aka DavisMail) http://davismail.ucdavis.edu can be accessed in a few ways:

* Through MyUCDavis
* via http://google.ucdavis.edu
* via POP or IMAP http://xbase.ucdavis.edu/1701

UCD Geckomail

Sometimes it's fast. Sometimes it's slow. Sometimes it's filled with thousands of spam email messages. Sometimes SpamAssassin targets those little buggers and creates a delightful email experience. Regardless of the quirks, a UC Davis email account provides a convenient way for students and teachers to communicate with each other. Currently these email accounts provide a rather low 60MB of storage. This 60MB quota includes spam, so make sure to delete your spam or mail to you will start bounding.

Most email servers have a postmaster, which is responsible for keeping the service running smoothly. Davis, on the other hand, has the self-proclaimed "Post Mistress," Debbie Edwards.

If you have a UC Davis email account, you can check your email a few ways:

Geckomail is the University's web-based email client, available at http://geckomail.ucdavis.edu. It's a little slow, and doesn't have a lot of features, but it's terribly easy to access.
Through MyUCDavis (which actually just displays geckomail in a HTML frame)
via IMAP or POP access with an email client like Outlook or Evolution or Thunderbird http://xbase.ucdavis.edu/1881
Forward it to Gmail, Hotmail, etc. and you can check it in your own inbox without logging into MyUCDavis.

You can check status.ucdavis.edu to see if your particular server is up, before you get all frustrated about something not working.

Note that your UCD email address gets turned off 6 months after you graduate or get disenrolled, however you can get it forwarded elsewhere. It is unknown whether they will forward perpetually or for only a limited amount of time.

Because the email accounts have such a low storage limit, some people choose to either POP their email (download it to their computer and delete it off the server), or to forward it to another account. You can forward your email to a different account using this page, Gmail or some other web service is a good idea because you'll probably want to check it from many campus computer labs.

Anyone affiliated with UCD can create an email list to coordinate groups of people, but it's subject to approval by the administrators. See http://listproc.ucdavis.edu for details. You can also add and remove yourself from other groups (tired of departmental spam?).

You need to have a UCD email to join the UC Davis network on Facebook, which is a useful place for wasting your study time.

If you'd like to keep using your @ucdavis.edu email address after you graduate, check out the uc davis email forwarding service.

email.ucdavis.edu — Central location for more information.

Article from The California Aggie about the campus considering Gmail.

Comments:

Note: You must be logged in to add comments

2006-09-22 21:03:56 Ok Tech peeps, I cant figure this one out, is it possible to set up blackberry/motorola q service for UCD email? If not I guess i can forward to gmail but its just easier to have seperate servers and adresses. —KyleFlick

2009-05-06 18:57:47 Oddly enough, I still have to use Geckomail. DavisMail isn't accessible to me yet; I've no token to even enable it. I'm transferring this fall quarter so perhaps I'm not completely integrated. The FAQ says: "After the fall migration is complete, new students will automatically receive a DavisMail account when they become a UC Davis student." Perhaps I'm not a genuine UCD student yet... —RyanMikulovsky