GatorLink Services

The CNS Open Systems Group maintains the campus-wide GatorLink mail server for incoming e-mail, providing e-mail addresses/in-boxes for all UF faculty, staff, and students. The Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) and the Post Office Protocol (POP) can be used by users’ e-mail programs to retrieve messages from the GatorLink e-mail server.

CNS Open Systems also provides an outgoing (SMTP) e-mail server which all campus users can use to send e-mail [smtp.ufl.edu].

CNS’ GatorLink Web servers provide campus users the ability to publish their own Web pages to the world. All members of the UF community are eligible for Web server space on the “Plaza” server, to publish Web pages on the Internet. Plaza pages have addresses based on http://plaza.ufl.edu/yourGatorLinkUserid . For more information see http://help.gatorlink.ufl.edu/webserv.html .

All GatorLink usernames are eligible to use the Jabber instant messenger server provided by CNS Open Systems Group.The Jabber protocol can act as a gateway to other messaging systems such as AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) or Yahoo chat. Because the Jabber protocol is open, clients have been implemented on multiple platforms. Clients are available for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. For more information see http://docweb.cns.ufl.edu/docs/d0191 .

Usenet is a world-wide distributed discussion system. The CNS Open Systems Group maintains the campus-wide open-access Usenet server. This service can be accessed by connecting a news-reader (NNTP) program to usenet.ufl.edu. A GatorLink username is required to access this service from off-campus.

CNS offers Web-hosting services to official University of Florida entities. These services include a virtual host for your site and access to several of our Web-related technologies. Your Website will be accessible at http://orgname.ufl.edu where orgname is the name of your organization. “Orgnames” are subject to approval by the UF Webmaster.

As part of the Web-hosting service you will have access to complementary Web technologies. These include CGI processing, a J2EE application server, and database services.

As its stewards, CNS will ensure your Web-site and its associated data through regular backup and storage procedures. For more information on CNS’s Web-hosting services, please see http://open-systems.ufl.edu/services/webhost .

LISTSERV is an e-mail list-management software program which makes it easy to administer e-mail lists. It is the most time-tested and reliable e-mail list-management product on the market today. CNS runs a LISTSERV server for the UF community. As a service to our customers, CNS does not charge for running a LISTSERV list; however, there is a charge for maintaining an archive.

The topics of e-mail lists at CNS must be directly related to the instruction, research, or administrative mission of Florida’s public universities. For more information, see http://docweb.cns.ufl.edu/docs/d0099 .

We hate “spam” (junk e-mail). To help you reduce spam to your e-mail accounts, we provide spam-blocking and spam-scoring services. The CNS Open Systems Group has enabled a “spam-detection” system for every single e-mail sent to GatorLink username@ufl.edu addresses. This process gives each message a score, using asterisks (*) to “grade” each message. If a message gets a score of 5 (*****) or more asterisks, then we’re pretty certain it’s spam. Because these spam scores are now a part of the headers in your e-mail, they can be used as a sorting/screening device in certain e-mail programs. This should save you considerable time, effort and annoyance by screening out junk e-mail so you don’t have to see it. For more information, see www.cns.ufl.edu/spam .

CNS Open Systems group provides the Network Storage and Archive Management (NSAM) service to support backup, archival, and space-management functions across campus and in the community. We use the IBM product Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) to provide this service. The NSAM includes automatic daily remote copy of backup data to an offsite facility in Atlanta. For more information, see http://open-systems.ufl.edu/services/NSAM .