That Web Man

I am involved with a local school on a personal basis. Yesterday, we were asked to come in for a training session to go through our own log-in for committee notes and our school e-mail which we can access via a webmail interface from our “desktops”.

I logged in, changed the default password, changed the theme of the desktop and then sent myself an e-mail as they use quite an involved address. I set up some notifications for the committees and asked the IT head if it would be possible to have my school e-mails forwarded to my own e-mail address. It wasn’t.

When I got in, I downloaded the e-mail and looked in great detail at the message headers, worked out which server was the most likely candidate and then set up my mail client to poll the school e-mail server to get my e-mails that way. Not hacking though, I hasten to add.