College Web Mail to drop ‘k’ from domain name
By John Savage, Staff Writer
Big changes are in store for the OCCC Web Mail services, according to www. occc.edu.
The college is in the process of changing its domain name from okccc.edu to occc.edu.
Students and faculty will have to adjust by typing the right domain name at the end of their e-mail.
Instead of typing new student@po.okccc.edu, students will now need to type newstudent@po.occc.edu.
Students and faculty will not have to manually change their existing accounts.
E-mail administrators will make the change effective for all accounts at the same time.
Thunderbird, Mozilla and Outlook Express users will need to change the incoming and outgoing e-mail server names from po. okccc.edu to po.occc.edu.
Students and faculty must inform their contacts that the domain name is changing; otherwise, the e-mails will be sent back by the postmaster.
The change took place over the weekend of June 17 to 18, according to www.occc.edu.
Faculty and students who use the OCCC Web Mail services to subscribe to services online will have to re-subscribe with the new e-mail address.
Some students say they just use the OCCC Web Mail to send and receive e-mails, and appreciate the service.
“I just started using it,” said Steve Wallace, business junior. “I find [OCCC Web Mail] to be very convenient.”
Students and faculty can start to change the domain name now if they wish, even though the old domain name will continue to work until the weekend of June 17 to 18.
For some students, the domain name change eliminates some spam e-mails.
“That definitely could be useful,” said Jodie Potts, physical therapy junior.
Spam is annoying.”
The Web Mail page will display a message when the change has taken place.
Junk e-mails received after July 1 will be undeliverable if the domain name is ending with a po.okccc.edu.
In the past, some Web Mail users have reported that bogus administrators of the college e-mail systems have sent e-mails with the heading “Warning: your e-mail account will be closed and come from an address of mail@po.okccc. edu.”
These e-mails are fakes and the college has taken steps to eliminate the delivery of the bogus e-mails…
