School of the Biological Sciences Guide to IT and Computing


Options for email

  • The main University email service is provided by the University Computing Service. This allows access from any computer or suitable mobile phones, using any email software, and has a webmail interface. It is known as Hermes. You manage your hermes account (eg forwarding, vacation message etc) via the webmail interface. It is free to end users.
  • You can also run email lists using University Computing Service facilities.
  • Your department may have its own email domain, often using the University Computing Service managed mail domain service, and it may issue you with addresses of the form a.b.smith@dept.cam.ac.uk or similar "friendly" names.
  • If you have a University CRSid (eg abc20) you usually have an address of the form crsid@cam.ac.uk
  • You can define where email sent to your @cam.ac.uk address goes: visit the Lookup web site. You need a Raven password first (See University Computing Service link on the right).
  • You can choose to publish, or stop showing, your email address in the public email directory search, using Jackdaw (where you can also set your @cam address but Lookup offers more other features).
More computing resources
Bioinformatics and computational biology services
High Performance Computing Service
University Computing Service