IT Services

E-mail and news groups

Everyone in the University can use e-mail and have an e-mail address with form firstname.lastname@helsinki.fi .

Mappi e-mail is the main e-mail system in the University. You can use it via Webmail by WWW browsers or suitable e-mail software eg. Mozilla Thunderbikrd, Outlook Express or in Unix Pine.

There are also mailing lists available for groups and organizations. (orderform)

Spam (junk e-mail) is nowardays one the biggest problems of the e-mail. The University have a common junk mail identification system.

If you have special questions concerning email use service address atk-posti [ät] helsinki.fi.

News groups

USENET News is a worldwide discussion forum in which the discussion topics are divided between topic-based newsgroups. Some of the newsgroups are local and some global. There are tens of thousands of newsgroups. University of Helsinki news server news.helsinki.fi carries about 400 local groups.

Further information

Alma: Premises, equipment and basic services » E-mail and news groups
Guides and Instructions: Email

22.03.2011