Email and GroupwareEmail Server
An overview of available email servers and their use
The Heidelberg University Computing Centre operates different email servers to cater to the varying needs of the users.
- Incoming mail server (IMAP)
- Exchange
- Outgoing mail server (SMTP)
Possible email addresses
Here is a list of the possible email addresses that you can receive from the URZ or from your institute:
Table
| User Type | Email Address | Server |
|---|
| User Type | Email Address | Server |
|---|---|---|
Students | <name/uniid>[at]stud.uni-heidelberg.de | imap.urz.uni-heidelberg.de |
Employees | <name/id>[at]uni-heidelberg.de | imap.urz.uni-heidelberg.de, exchange.uni-heidelberg.de |
Employees of institutes with their own domains | <name/id>[at]<institute acronym>.uni-heidelberg.de | imap.urz.uni-heidelberg.de, exchange.uni-heidelberg.de |
Incoming mail server (IMAP): Settings
Username: Uni ID
Mailboxes are created on the imap.urz.uni-heidelberg.de server by default.
You can access your mailbox both with an email client and by using a web interface. Alongside email access, it provides an address book and a calendar function. All functions are also available via Active Sync. The necessary data for the different servers can be found in the following table:
Table
| Protocol | Server Settings | Port | Encryption |
|---|
| Protocol | Server Settings | Port | Encryption |
|---|---|---|---|
IMAP | imap.urz.uni-heidelberg.de | 143 | (STARTTLS) |
IMAPS | imap.urz.uni-heidelberg.de | 993 | TLS |
POP | imap.urz.uni-heidelberg.de | 110 | (STARTTLS) |
POPS | imap.urz.uni-heidelberg.de | 995 | TLS |
HTTP (web access) | https://sogo.urz.uni-heidelberg.de | 443 | |
CalDAV (personal calendar) | https://sogo.uni-heidelberg.de/SOGo/dav/<UniID>/Calendar/personal/ | ||
CardDAV (personal contacts) | https://sogo.uni-heidelberg.de/SOGo/dav/<UniID>/Contacts/personal/ |
Exchange: Settings
Username: ad\Uni-ID
Table
| Protocol | Server Settings | Port | Encryption |
|---|
| Protocol | Server Settings | Port | Encryption |
|---|---|---|---|
MAPI (Outlook access) | exchange.uni-heidelberg.de | ||
IMAP | exchange.uni-heidelberg.de | 143 | (STARTTLS) |
IMAPS | exchange.uni-heidelberg.de | 993 | TLS |
HTTP (web access) | https://exchange.uni-heidelberg.de/owa | 143 |
Outgoing mail server (SMTP): Settings
Table
| Protocol | Server Address | Port | Encryption |
|---|
| Protocol | Server Address | Port | Encryption | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Clients | SMTP | mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de | 587 | (STARTTLS) |
Server | SMTP | relays.uni-heidelberg.de | 25 | (STARTTLS) |
Exchange | SMTP | exchange.uni-heidelberg.de | 587 | (STARTTLS) |