To receive or sending emails, users can use the Official EPFL mail server or the IPG mail server, both can be used from standard mail clients programs or from Web Browsing. The principal motif to use the local mail server is that this server doesn't have a quota limitation on the mail messages that a user can store. The Official mail server of the EPFL has a mail quota of around 1 Gbytes for every user.
The maximum dimension of a message (received or sent) can't be more than 20 Mbyte (the worldwide mail service use a 7 bit codification, so the maximum real dimension of a mail message is around 13 Mbytes).

<note warning> Following the EPFL directives, our local mail service can't be reachable directly from outside EPFL, so your email address must be always the one provided by EPFL. Every user have to configure the official mail server to forward all the incoming messages to his/hers local mailbox. There's no possibility to have a global change of the configurations. </note>

Every user of the EPFL network has an email address like this: firstname.surname@epfl.ch; messages destined to this address is sent to the personal mailbox of the user. This mailbox is named after the user (or the first 8 chars if his/hers name is longer) and it's stored in the ewa.epfl.ch (M$ Exchange) server.

• Simplicity of configuration
• Accessible from everywhere
• Understand IMAP,SMTP,IMAPS,SMTPS,HTTPS protocols
  • Web, Imap, Smtp connections are encrypted
• Antivirus & antispam Features

• Quota limitation on the INBOX of 1 Gbytes
  • Management of the email message become complicated when the quota limitation is reached
  • Need to move/delete old messages in Inbox, Sent and Trash folders
  • Access to archived messages is impossible from remote locations

• Accessible from everywhere
• Login & Password are the same you use to access the linux network
• understand POP3,IMAP,IMAPS,SMTP,SMTPS,HTTPS protocols
  • Web, Imap and Smtp connections are encrypted
• Space for all your mail messages (received, sent, draft)
  • No need to move your email messages from the server
• Antivirus & Antispam Features (based on OpenSource projects)

• The server functionality is limited by EPFL's policy
  • The configuration of the mail client is a little tricky
  • It's impossible to receive email messages directly to your address <username>@lth.epfl.ch from outside EPFL networks
• Backup of the mailbox just 1 time per day
• Global antispam is the strongest possible and we can have some false positive
• To inform the spam filter about errors we have to use the web interface if we connecting from outside the I.P.G. network.