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PolyLink
Turning to Become Web-based
By
Henry Wong
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In this summer, the
Computing Services Centre has been working on upgrading the PolyLink
e-mail to a new Web-based e-mail system. The e-mail system is
built upon the Sun Internet Mail Server (SIMS) system and the
Mailspinner Web-based e-mail user interface running on the powerful
Sun UltraSparc Enterprise servers. Besides having a better user
interface and system performance, this new system also supports
all open standard features, including the binary attachment feature,
which is missing in our current PolyLink e-mail system. As it
is of a Web-based interface, users can access e-mail from anywhere
by just using any Web browser.
The phase 1 implementation of PolyLink
II e-mail has been completed and the service is provided to new
students (admitted after 1 July 1999). Subsequently, all students
and staff will be scheduled to migrate to this new system gradually.
If everything goes smoothly, the migration of all students to
the new system will be completed before Semester B.
At present, only new students
can access the PolyLink e-mail via the “PolyLink II (Phase
1 for new students)” option from the CityU Network Menu.
All staff and other students should use the old PolyLink system
by selecting the “PolyLink” option from the Network
Menu as before.
Please note that no matter whether
students are using the new (PolyLink II) or old PolyLink system,
their e-mail address remains the same and is:
<student-id>@plink.cityu.edu.hk
or
<e-mail-alias>@plink.cityu.edu.hk
For example, if the Student ID of
your student is 50123456, no matter whether he/she is a new/old
student, his/her e-mail address is still 50123456@plink.cityu.edu.hk
.
Other PolyLink services such as Bulletin
Board or Staff Channel will also migrate to Web-based system later
when the entire upgrade of the PolyLink system is complete. In
the meantime, they can still be accessible in text-based mode
as before. We shall keep you informed on the progress of the PolyLink
upgrade by e-mail or by Network Message. For further queries,
please contact our Help Desk at ext. 7658 or e-mail to cc@plink.cityu.edu.hk.
