Category: Email and calendar

Share and delegate your mailbox

Delegate your mailbox Delegates are granted additional permissions, such as creating email messages or responding to meeting requests on your behalf. You can determine the level of access that the delegate has to your folders. You can choose a delegate in Outlook in the “File” tab, “Account Settings“, and then click “Delegate Access”, “Add” By […]

Email certificates

A personal user certificate is a digital file that is installed to your email application to enable secure email communication. With a certificate you are able to digitally sign your emails so the recipient can verify that the email was sent by you and the data is unchanged. Moreover you can encrypt your emails so […]

Phishing and mail spoofing

What is phishing and spoofing email? Emails are referred to as phishing, e.g. try to steal passwords or spread a virus on a computer. A phishing email can be, for example, a fake invoice or an attractive offer. It often requires immediate action to get you to fill out a fake form, click the link […]

Mail filter with Mailcleaner

The Mail Filtering Service scans incoming mail for spam, phishing, malware and scam messages. Incoming mail passes through the filter gateways before it reaches the mail servers. Users with ETH accounts may choose to reject spam or mark it with the addition of a tag to the message subject line {Spam?}. ETH account users are […]

Mailbox

The mailbox is composed of Mail, calendar, Contacts and Tasks. It is available on all current web browsers and mail clients. The service is available to all ETH Zurich employees, lecturers and students and is free of charge. Further instructions IT Knowledge Base: Mailbox  

Shared mailboxes

If you need to have a shared space within Outlook/Exchange for collaborative work with incoming e-mails or calendars, you can request a shared mailbox from us which can be accesses simultaneously from multiple persons. How to connect a shared mailbox  Once you received access to a shared mailbox please follow theses steps to attach this […]

Outlook calendar functions

You can share a calendar with a person or a group by selecting the icon for “share calendar”.  or  Start sharing Click on “To” to select the person or group with whom you want to share your calendar. A group can be a team (eg. a group distributionlist D -MTEC ISM) or a project group. […]

Restore deleted emails/items

Outlook In the menu Folder, click Recover Deleted Items.     ETH Web Mail Log into the WebMail Portal Make a right-click on “Deleted Items” At the bottom of the pop-up menu, select “Recover deleted items”   Mails older than 30 days are archived. If these emails are accidentally deleted, they can be returned to the […]

Outlook autocomplete list

Outlook remembers every address you have typed in a To:, Cc: or Bcc: field. When you start keying in a name or address, Outlook automatically suggest the contact in its entirety. Unfortunately, Outlook remembers the misstyped and old as well as the correct and current—and suggest it indiscriminately.   Delete an Address from the Outlook […]