4. Other Email Topics

Addresses

How do Oxford Email Addresses work? We have some notes on the local conventions which should clarify matters.

Contacts/address book

Many people maintain large and important address books containing email addresses of their work and personal contacts. Nexus provides two distinct address books: a global Oxford one and a personal address book for each user. For more information, see Nexus Contacts.
When you first start using Nexus, you will probably want to import your address book from your existing email client so that you can access all your existing contacts from Nexus. For more information, see Nexus Contacts page.

Mailing Lists

If you want to have regular email discussions between a group of people, you should look at Mailing Lists.

@herald

The mail system, previous to the current mail system Nexus, was called 'Herald'. To ease the migration of accounts to Nexus, email addresses of the form username@herald.ox.ac.uk were still honoured- though it was never an approved form. The following time-table for the wind down of herald-related facilities is

1. Jan 2010: student clubs and societies were assigned an email address of the form societyname.society@studentclubs.ox.ac.uk
2. The stopping of @herald.ox.ac.uk as an email address has slipped and will now be terminated with imap.herald configuration on the 30th Nov 2011.
3. imap.herald.ox.ac.uk will be a valid configuration option for mail clients until 30th Nov 2011. It is necessary to stop this support in preparation for the server upgrade to Exchange 2010. See http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/nexus/email/clients.xml . for other configuration options.

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