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title: Email Account Guide
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**IMPORTANT: PLEASE CHOOSE A STRONG PASSWORD FOR YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT**
[![img](https://linux.ucla.edu/wiki/images/thumb/3/34/Image.png/300px-Image.png)](https://linux.ucla.edu/wiki/index.php/File:Image.png)
Some hacking attempts on our email server
**WE GET SEVERAL BRUTE FORCE ATTEMPTS EVERY DAY. IF THE HACKERS GET IN TO YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT THEY WILL SEND SPAM AND THE CS DEPARTMENT WILL GET MAD AT US.** **Please use a secure password, otherwise we might have to restrict access to only people on the UCLA VPN.**
## Logging in
I am using the following settings with Thunderbird to get in. I haven't tried it with another email client but you are welcome to.
SMTP:
Server Name: mail.linux.ucla.edu
Port: 587
[![img](https://linux.ucla.edu/wiki/images/thumb/9/9b/Hackerman.png/300px-Hackerman.png)](https://linux.ucla.edu/wiki/index.php/File:Hackerman.png)
Look at all the hackers getting banned for too many failed login attempts!
Authentication method: Normal password
Connection security: STARTTLS
IMAP:
Server Name: mail.linux.ucla.edu
Port: 993
Authentication method: Normal Password
Connection security: SSL/TLS
## Changing your password
To change the password, please ssh into your web server and ssh to [your username]@10.0.0.10. Then use passwd to change your password.
(Yes we know, this is a pretty crappy and inelegant solution, but it's good enough for now)