I Wanna Print!

You’ve Got New E-Mail

by Megan Speakes

Have you wondered where your e-mail address with the “@umd.edu” suffix came from? Currently, every student has one listed in the University Directory. This new e-mail address forwards messages to your primary e-mail address, which is usually a departmental or OIT-supported e-mail account and is listed in the Directory below the “@umd.edu” address. The new address is not only shorter and easier to remember, but will also remain constant even if you change your primary e-mail system.
Students who use OIT-supported e-mail systems (WAM, Glue/Deans, umail, and ACCMAIL) will begin transitioning to the new Mail@umd system in the fall of 2003. Your e-mail address on the Mail@umd system will be the “@umd.edu” address that is listed in the University Directory and discussed above. Students will have 50MB of storage. Forwarding services from old addresses will be continued for at least a year after the last user has moved off of the system, however you can begin using your “@umd.edu” e-mail address now. Students with accounts on systems such as WAM and Glue that provide home space in addition to an e-mail account will not lose home space—only e-mail delivery will be disabled.
The Mail@umd system provides added convenience and security:

• It is faster and more reliable

than the current
• It is Web-accessible so you can access it from any computer with an Internet browser.
• It provides system-level virus scanning so your computer is protected by an additional layer of filtering.
• It is accessible from PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants such as PalmPilots and other handheld computers) and other Wireless Ap-plication Protocol (WAP)-enabled roaming devices.
• It uses secure, encrypted transfer protocol for information between your computer and the mail system.

For more information and FAQs about
the Mail@umd system, visit www.oit.umd.edu/email. To find your “@umd.edu” address, go to https://directory.umd.edu/search and search for your name.

Do you have a paper due tomorrow and need to print it? Don’t wait until the last minute! UM students can use printers in the WAM labs for ten cents per printed page, but they need a print account. We went through the procedure of obtaining one and this is what we found:

1. Open a Terrapin Express Debit Account
If you already have one, skip this step. Visit the Terrapin Express office in person in room 1109 of the South Campus Dining Hall (301.314.8069). Be sure to bring your Uni-versity ID card with you. Terrapin Express payments may be made by cash, check, or credit card. The minimum deposit is $20.

2. Open a Print Account
Print accounts must be obtained in person at the OIT Help Desk in room 1400 of the Computer & Space Sciences Building (301.405.1500).

3. Transfer money from your Terrapin Express account to your Print account
Even after you get both a Print Account and a Terrapin Express account, you aren’t ready to print yet.

OIT recognizes the complexity of the current process and is currently investigating the feasibility of alternative, more streamlined processes.

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