UCI’s Mail Transport Agents (MTAs) are the computers responsible for delivering electronic mail addressed to your “@UCI.EDU” e-mail address which is published in the UCI Phone book and elsewhere. NACS currently provides 4 MTA machines that are constantly on-the-job. Each day the MTA systems route an average of 40,000 messages. These machines also process e-mail sent from certain on-campus mail gateways to other destinations on and off-campus.
The MTA systems use the e-mail delivery information (called the”delivery point”) contained in UCI’s online directory database (Ph/Qi) to know where to deliver electronic mail. To be sure your @UCI.EDU mail is being delivered to your preferred electronic address, use the online directory update form:
http://www.uci.edu/cgi-bin/phupdate
The field labeled “email” is the delivery point, which should be your local computer ID, an @ sign, and the name of the mail system from which you read and process your mail.