Academic Computing Services

Many students ask about “forwarding” their DYC email to their personal Yahoo or Gmail email addresses, because most people have a personal email account that they plan to continue to use in addition to their DYC address.

Even though forwarding services are not available on the D’Youville email server, you can still set up your Yahoo or Gmail email accounts to import your DYC email into those web-mail services.

First, you need to know the following 3 things about your DYC email account before you get started:

1. your DYC network username
2. your DYC network password
3. the D’Youville email server address for students, which is stumail.dyc.edu (the email server name is not the same for DYC staff)

The advantage to setting up your Yahoo or Gmail email accounts to import your DYC email is that you only have one webmail account to check. Since it is more convenient to check your DYC webmail this way, you’ll get your DYC email more regularly and keep up with the latest events on campus.

• 1. For Gmail users, log in and click on the Settings link in the top right corner of the screen.
  
• 2. Inside the Settings window, click on the link for the Accounts tab.
  
• 3. Click on the link to Add another email address.
  
• 4. Type your name in the first blank, and your complete DYC email address in the second blank.
  
• The example in the picture below is how a student named Pat Student might fill out the blanks in step 4 above.
  
• 5. Click on the button to Send Verification, then log into your DYC webmail to complete the verification process.
  
• 6. Confirm the verification by clicking the link in your DYC email (the one Gmail sent you) or type in the confirmation code in the blank.
  
• 7. Back in the Accounts tab, here at the bottom of the screen, click on the link to edit info for the new account you just set up.
  
• 8. Fill in the blank for POP Server with the address stumail.dyc.edu. The Port number is 110. NOTE: If you don’t plan to log directly into your DYC mail anymore, make sure the checkbox next to “Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server” is NOT checked, as shown in the example above—this will make it so that your DYC inbox doesn’t get too full. Make sure you click the Save Changes button.
  

1) Log into your DYC webmail

2) Click the “Options” link along the left side navigation panel:

3) Click on the “Change Password” button towards the bottom of the page:

4) Fill out the form to change your password. Enter “dycmail” in the domain field and click “OK”

The new password you make will now work for logging into STACI, too.

The computers in the computer classrooms and the computer labs have more than one web browser installed, so that if the web site you’re trying to access is picky about which browser you use, you have enough choices to get where you want to go.

Here’s a short list of some known issues:

Sometimes, you’ll find that the browser that works on your own computer doesn’t let you access the same web site when you’re using a college computer. There are a number of variables affecting your ability to connect, so rather than try to troubleshoot each potential problem, our advice is to just try the same web site with a different browser.

Our message to stop using floppy disk has gotten out there, and it seems just about everyone has started using USB drives to save their files.

But USB drives by themselves are not sufficient, because they can be lost, stolen, and in rare cases stop working properly. Without a backup copy of your files, your work is gone.

We urge you not to learn this lesson the hard way. Backup before you need it, because it can happen without warning.

Good backup plans include the following options:

• email yourself the file
• use a second USB drive
• print your paper (you can scan it and create a new file from the text)
• burn a CD or DVD
• use an online file-hosting service, such as .Mac or filesanywhere.com/

Many people choose to use instant messaging (IM) to chat with other people instead of using the phone or email to communicate. The computers in the computer lab do not allow student users to install any programs, such as a chat or IM program, so we have found an alternative in the web-based chat program by Meebo.com.

If you have an IM screen name (or SN as they are also known) for any of the major IM services, Meebo lets you use their web-based chat interface for free. All the web browsers in the computer labs have the site bookmarked so that it is easy for users to find it.