Tired of using Lotus Notes? How to forward UNO e-mail

Tired of battling with UNO's Lotus Notes e-mail system? Sick of missing important class announcements from Blackboard? The Gateway has your back.What follows are directions for hacking your UNO account to redirect e-mails from Blackboard and Lotus Notes to your preferred alternative e-mail address, such as a personal G-mail, Hotmail or Yahoo account. A primer on disabling that pesky spam filter - and its hunger for your most important messages - is also included.

These techniques are not endorsed by Information Technology Services. They are provided as-is for entertainment purposes only. Any betterment of your personal life as a result of this advice is purely accidental.

Now let's get down to the technical details.



Updating Blackboard preferences

1. Log in at myuno.unomaha.edu to load your Blackboard profile.

2. On the left side of the screen, click "Personal Information" under "Tools" and select "Edit Personal Information" on the resulting page.

3. Change your "BB-only Email" to your preferred account and click the "Submit" button at the bottom of the page. Click "OK" to confirm.

4. Click "OK" again to leave the page. Any message sent by Blackboard should now be delivered to your preferred e-mail account and not your UNO Lotus notes account.



Forwarding Lotus Notes e-mails

1. Log in at mymail.unomaha.edu - this may take a ridiculous number of attempts. If you can't log in, set this paper aside and try it again in a few minutes.

2. Once you log in, click "Full" on the bar at the very top of the window if the "Lite" mode is highlighted. If a warning message saying a script from International Business Machines Corporation might be unsafe, choose to allow the software to run.

3. On the left is a sidebar where, second from the bottom, is the option "Tools." Click on this and then select "Rules" from the sub-menu.

4. On the menu bar on the right pane of the screen, click "New" to select the "New Mail Rule" dialogue. A window will pop up.

5. Give the rule a name like "Forward Mail" and make sure the radio button called "Enabled" is selected.

6. Under "Specify conditions," select "Sender" from the first menu, "is not" from the second menu and type "nobody@nowhere.com" or another make-up e-mail address for the text box under the two menus. Click the "Add> >" button.

7. Under "Specify actions," select "send copy to" from the menu. In the text box below it, give the e-mail address you want your mail forwarded to, e.g. "you@gmail.com", and make sure "full" is selected in the menu below the text box. Click the "Add> >" button.

8. Optional: If you want to delete the message from Lotus Notes, rather than save a backup there, select "Delete (don't accept message)" from the "Specify actions" menu. Click the "Add> >" button. This is recommended only if you get a lot of messages to your UNO e-mail account.

9. Click "OK" and select "Lite" again from the menu at the top of your screen. Your UNO mail should now forward to your preferred e-mail. Make sure to send a test e-mail to confirm that it is working. (Note: It may take several minutes for the test message to arrive in your preferred e-mail account.)



Disabling spam quarantine

1. Log in at antispam.unomaha.edu to load your quarantine box.

2. Click "Preferences" at the top of the page, and select "Spam Settings" on the resulting page.

3. Change "Enable spam filtering" to "No," and note the warning message to the right.

4. Click "the "Save Changes" button, and it should say "Configuration updated" in green letters after reloading. Now all e-mails sent to your UNO address, including spam, will pass through to your inbox.