Sep
23
2008
GUMail update happening in late October…for faculty
Posted by: Will Sommer in News, Vox Populi, tags: GUMail, UISThe switch to the new and improved GUMail (250 megabytes!) will happen in late October for faculty and staff. No word on when students will get theirs, but you shouldn’t be too upset that you have to wait–staff email is going to be knocked out for two whole weekends during the switch-over.
Wasn’t this supposed to happen months ago?
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Actually, STUDENT e-mail is also going down for those two weekends – unless you have your e-mail forwarded.
Once again: if you use imap.georgetown.edu to access GUMail, it will be down for the weekends of Oct. 24-27 and Oct. 31-Nov. 3. If your GUMail is set to automatically forward to GMail or another non-Georgetown e-mail service, your e-mail will be unaffected.
My advice: if you currently use imap.georgetown.edu, stop. Sign up for Gmail, and have Georgetown forward your mail to Google. And never look back. I sure haven’t. If you do this, you’ll be unaffected by the outage – your mail will be delivered immediately, even while the system is down.
I work for UIS and I’m just as outraged as y’all must be.
Let me say what UIS/AITS won’t: I’m sorry. This sucks. You go to Georgetown, which is really a pretty great college, and your e-mail should work, especially in interview/grad school app season. I hope that we (UIS) do better in the future.
(Disclaimer: The information in this post is based on what I was told at the last UIS meeting – it may have changed since then, but I do not believe that it has.)
Ok, so is the press release just saying the downtime affects faculty because it’s taken from a Blue & Gray article?
I second Matthew on Gmail. It’s great!
I thought I’d see you post on this issue again Matt, I remember your comment on the UIS issue this summer http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2008/07/10/uis-silly-students-email-is-for-faculty/ and still wholeheartedly agree with you.
Georgetown should get its priorities straight especially when it comes to information services if it wants to count itself among the top universities in this country it should start to focus on recognizing that its student population, albeit transient, needs to be heard more. Where’s Pat Dowd on all this??? I know we all had enough free time to go to the Kennedy center to see opera, thanks for that non-event, but how about GUTS busses that could get us there.
I second all of Matt’s emails. Kid’s got his head on straight. He’s a GERM too from what I hear. The voice should run an ed about this, Matt want to write it?