Access to Barnard servers now requires a "secure connection". If you are not able to connect to your email, you can:

• log in to Webmail  since this is a secure connection.

• follow the instructions below for your email program

• call the Help Desk for assistance. Please tell us the name and version of the program you use to read email. 

Instructions
 

On November 1st, 2005,  all insecure protocols were discontinued, and secure client configurations are now required to access all server applications.
Management Information and Network Services requires that all computers use secure, encrypted protocols for data communication to Barnard Servers. This includes e-mail (IMAP, POP), file transfer, telnet and uploading web pages.

The important information for most users is that Barnard's servers, bc.barnard.edu and eclipse.barnard.edu, will accept secure connections only. This means that your mail program is required to use the SSL ("Secure Sockets Layer") protocol to retrieve your mail, to transfer files to and from your account and to telnet to your account. If you updated your email configuration during the email upgrade at the beginning of October then it is likely that it is already properly configured.

Tips:

• Please verify that your incoming server is "bc.barnard.edu" rather than "bc.barnard.columbia.edu"

• If you are forwarding your Barnard email to another account, you do not need to take any action.

• If in the past you connected to a server via telnet, you now need to use one of the programs listed under Terminal

• Your settings are fine if:

  • you are already using Secure Shell for Pine

  • you are already using Secure Shell for File Transfer

  • you are already using WinSCP for File Transfer