Essential Applications
Introduction
All members of the Physics Department can have email accounts on the Rutgers Connect system with the address of
Reading email
The following options are available for reading email:
- Use a mail reader program on your own computer that supports IMAP or Exchange protocols. Examples of such programs are Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook, and Evolution.
- Use the Rutgers Connect Outlook for Web Access (OWA).
Departmental Email Lists
Introduction
We maintain a number of email lists that may be used to send email to various categories of people in the Department, or to the entire Department. These email lists are built from information in a database that is also used to maintain the online Departmental Directory. Email can be sent to a list by sending to "listname@lists.physics.rutgers.edu". The available listname's will be described below.
Click here for detailed information for all lists
Click on the above link for a complete list of the available email lists, including the members of each list. (Access is restricted to members of the Physics Department, and login with Rutgers NetID and password is required.)
Printing
To report problems with printers, send email to
There are a number of printers available for public use in the Physics Department via the local area network. These are accessed via queues on our central print server system via the LPD protocol. The network name of the print server is physprint.rutgers.edu. The available printers are summarized in the following table:
Departmental Software and Information
The Physics Department has several homemade applications and homemaintained databases which are useful to its members. Some of these are available on the web 
, some on the Departmental Suns 
, some on the Departmental Linux machines 
, some as software you can load onto your Unix machines 
, and currently none are software for your Windows machines 
, though that might change.