(This article repeats information distributed earlier this month to all Lab email users.) As of Thursday, March 15, the Lab has implemented a change in central outgoing email servers to improve cybersecurity. Employees who use their Lab email accounts to send mail through the Lab's servers from outside the Lab network will need to make a one-time change to their email preferences, as well as slightly change how they log in to send mail.

This change only needs to be performed on computers that are not "inside the Berkeley Lab network." A computer is "inside the Berkeley Lab network" if it is located at the Laboratory, the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), the Oakland Scientific Facility (OSF), the Lab's Washington Office, or connected to the Lab by direct dial to the PPP service or via ISDN.

If you only send email from a computer that is "inside the Berkeley Lab network," this change does NOT affect you.

Note that users of the Lab's web-based e-mail interface need not make this change.

Click here for instructions and more information about this change.

If you have any questions, contact the computer support Help Desk at X4357.