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Share and delegate your mailbox

Delegate your mailbox Delegates are granted additional permissions, such as creating email messages or responding to meeting requests on your behalf. You can determine the level of access that the delegate has to your folders. You can choose a delegate in Outlook in the “File” tab, “Account Settings“, and then click “Delegate Access”, “Add” By default, when you add a delegate, the delegate has full access to your Calendar and Tasks folders. The delegate can […]

Email certificates

A personal user certificate is a digital file that is installed to your email application to enable secure email communication. With a certificate you are able to digitally sign your emails so the recipient can verify that the email was sent by you and the data is unchanged. Moreover you can encrypt your emails so that only your intended recipient can access the content of the message. Certificates can be ordered in the ETH network […]

Phishing and mail spoofing

What is phishing and spoofing email? Emails are referred to as phishing, e.g. try to steal passwords or spread a virus on a computer. A phishing email can be, for example, a fake invoice or an attractive offer. It often requires immediate action to get you to fill out a fake form, click the link to a fake website, or open an infected attachment. The goal of e-mail spoofing is to fake the sender of […]

Mail filter with Mailcleaner

The Mail Filtering Service scans incoming mail for spam, phishing, malware and scam messages. Incoming mail passes through the filter gateways before it reaches the mail servers. Users with ETH accounts may choose to reject spam or mark it with the addition of a tag to the message subject line {Spam?}. ETH account users are also provided with a personal allowlist and blocklist. MailCleaner is a Swiss product which is used by several Swiss universities. […]

Shared mailboxes

If you need to have a shared space within Outlook/Exchange for collaborative work with incoming e-mails or calendars, you can request a shared mailbox from us which can be accesses simultaneously from multiple persons. How to connect a shared mailbox Once you received access to a shared mailbox please follow theses steps to attach this mailbox to your outlook: Outlook 365 Open your Outlook Choose the File tab in the ribbon. Choose Add Account Type in […]

Outlook calendar functions

You can share a calendar with a person or a group by selecting the icon for “share calendar”.  or  Start sharing Click on “To” to select the person or group with whom you want to share your calendar. A group can be a team (eg. a group distributionlist D -MTEC ISM) or a project group. Ev. the group distribution list must be set up be for this purpose. Adjust permissions Click on Calendar permissions to […]

Room mailboxes

Booking a room You can schedule a room while creating the invitation for a meeting: In Outlook go to “Calendar”, click “New Meeting”. In the “Room Finder” at the right border choose the room list for MTEC and the appropriate time in suggested times. Choose the room in the list of available rooms. For moderated rooms  you can send a reservation request to the Calendar Managers Group and your request has to be accepted. For all […]

Restore deleted emails/items

Outlook In the menu Folder, click Recover Deleted Items. ETH Web Mail Log into the WebMail Portal Make a right-click on “Deleted Items” At the bottom of the pop-up menu, select “Recover deleted items”   Mails older than 30 days are archived. If these emails are accidentally deleted, they can be returned to the mailbox via the mail archive.

Outlook autocomplete list

Outlook remembers every address you have typed in a To:, Cc: or Bcc: field. When you start keying in a name or address, Outlook automatically suggest the contact in its entirety. Unfortunately, Outlook remembers the misstyped and old as well as the correct and current—and suggest it indiscriminately. Delete an Address from the Outlook Autocomplete List To remove a name or email address from Outlook’s autocomplete list: Create a new email message in Outlook. Start […]