Cornell's email forwarding service, LDAP

Look up where email goes when you send an email to someone's Cornell email address. Change or add where you forward your Cornell-based email. Mail routing.

• Email forwarding look-up instructions, LDAP — Host: query.directory.cornell.edu http://query.directory.cornell.edu Path: o=cornell university,c=us Attributes: cornellEduMailDelivery mailRoutingAddress

CU's Gmail (CMail) service, direct send

Send an email directly to Cmail, bypassing O365 (and likely also Cornell's main email infrastructure): <NetID@g.cornell.edu>

Email Message Size Limits

CU's Exchange (Office 365, Outlook) system limits the size of email messages, including their attachments, to 25 MB. CU's e-lists limit full message size to 1MB.

Improving Cornell's central SPAM filter

Cornell's central email delivery service uses filters from Sophos to block or rate spam. The filters get better with real-world samples submitted by us. Here's a link to the page explaining how to do so.

On Macs, Microsoft Outlook is often better than Apple Mail

ChemIT notes on specific situations where we have noticed Outlook outperforming Mail.

• CU IT Directors Mtg notes on Apple Mail problems — More evidence, in Sept'13, that Apple Mail is not performing as well as Outlook in Cornell's email environment.

Outlook message's folder

In Windows, Alt-Enter to pull up legacy info box showing message's folder (location).