Authenticated SMTP for E-Mail
Rollout Completed June 2006
The information on this web site is provided as a resource to those who are interested in our now-completed rollout of authenticated SMTP. During the rollout, we used this site as a means of keeping the U-M community informed about the implementation of authenticated SMTP.
Over the course of the 2005-2006 academic year, ITCS rolled out the use of authenticated SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) for sending e-mail. This web site provided information to the campus during the implementation of authenticated SMTP. The rollout is now complete. This web site will remain available for a while for those who may be interested in the rollout details.
Authenticated SMTP makes e-mail more secure. It stops people from sending forged mail through ITCS machines. You already must authenticate (by using a password) to receive your e-mail; authenticated SMTP requires people to authenticate to send mail using ITCS's mail-sending machines.
What You Need to Do
If you use web mail, Pine on the Login Service, or Mulberry (the version provided by ITCS), you won't need to do anything. The change has already been made for you, and your mail program is already doing the necessary authentication.
If you use another e-mail program on your computer, you will need to change the settings for sending mail sometime before June 2006, when ITCS will turn off its unauthenticated SMTP server. Authenticated SMTP is available now, and you can begin using it any time you wish.
Instructions for the appropriate configuration settings are available:
Staying Informed
During the rollout of authenticated SMTP, members of the U-M community were invited to join an e-mail group to receive updates on the authenticated SMTP rollout. Now that the rollout is completed, that group has been decomissioned.
This page last updated September 19, 2006
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