Sending and reading email at FI

Faculty email account

Users with an active Unix account at FI have a mailbox with the address login@fi.muni.cz
The physical storage of your email is backed up and is located on either the Aisa or Anxur server: see the section on personal email aliases in the faculty account overview
The faculty mailbox login@fi.muni.cz is independent of the university mailbox in the Information System (address UČO@mail.muni.cz), but by default, email is forwarded to this mailbox
unless you forward your mail elsewhere, anti-spam protection applies to it
You can set up an automatic reply whilst you are away

Options for accessing your mailbox

If you have already configured your email client, we recommend checking the settings for connection: you should use the SSL/TLS versions of the ports (993, 995, 465) instead of the STARTTLS versions (110, 143, 25). For those interested, see RFC 8314 or the article on root.cz.

Using an email client:
- incoming mail
  - Depending on your physical storage location, set the server to anxur.fi.muni.cz or aisa.fi.muni.cz (staff typically use Anxura, students use Aisu)
  - Use either the IMAP protocol: port 993 (SSL/TLS)
  - or the POP3 protocol: port 995 (SSL/TLS)
- Outgoing mail
  - SMTP server relay.fi.muni.cz, port 465 (SSL/TLS)
  - if you are unable to send emails outside the FI/MU network (“Connection to the SMTP server failed”), this may be blocked by your internet service provider – please use a different method of accessing your mailbox or a VPN
- You can also set up an LDAP directory for faculty email addresses
Access via a web client:
- select the server anxur or aisa (see point above)
locally, after logging into Anxura or Aisu via SSH:
- We recommend using the programme mutt or alpine

Always use your faculty login as the username and authenticate with your faculty password.

Subaddressing

We support subaddressing for faculty email addresses, i.e. the option to place a plus sign after the local part of the address, followed by an optional string: xlogin+modifier@fi.muni.cz. Our mail server will deliver such an email to xlogin@fi.muni.cz. The power of this mechanism lies in the fact that you can then handle these emails in various ways (for example, by sorting them into a different folder) using procmail.

LDAP directory

If your client supports it, you can have optional email addresses auto-completed. However, the LDAP server is only accessible from the FI network.

Procedure for Thunderbird

Settings → Composition → Addressing → Directory Server → Edit Directories... → Add
Name: LDAP FI, Hostname: ldap.fi.muni.cz, Base DN: ou=People,dc=fi,dc=muni,dc=cz