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General Description of the E-mail Service

DEEC provides all users - students, teaching staff and non-teaching staff - with an e-mail account.

The e-mail system is based on the Zimbra system, which has the following features:

  • Freedom of customer choice
    • Browser – Client Zimbra AJAX
    • Cliente PC – Outlook (Online, Offline, Cached Mode), Apple Mail and iCal, Eudora, Evolution, Thunderbird/Sunbird, RSS, etc.
  • Self-organizing folders
  • Fast, advanced (in messages and attachments), recordable, multi-folder searches
  • Conversation view with multi-folder support
  • Filters
  • Full schedule
  • Rich cross-platform web interface - browser and operating system
  • Ubiquitous access - anywhere, any device
  • Secure access to attachments without the need for additional software
  • Collaborative system based on modern technologies
The domains of the different types of users are as follows:
  • Teaching and Non-Teaching Collaborators: @ deec.uc.pt