Announcing the Center for Aging Web Mail Interface
The Center for Aging (CFA) has recently implemented a web
interface to its email system. You can now read your email from anywhere
in the world using any of the commonly available web browsers.
The url to connect to the CFA webmail is:
https://www.geri.duke.edu/horde
There is also a link to it just below the title of the
CFA home page.
You may be asked if you wish to accept the security certificate.
If you are on a your own computer or any computer managed by DUMC, you
should check the button that says "Accept this certificate permanently."
If you are on any computer that is not managed by you or anyone in DUMC
IT, you should check the button that says "Accept this certicate
temporarily for this session."
You will then be prompted for the same username and password that
you already use to read your geri email. In the upper left corner you will
see an envelope icon entitled "Mail." Single click it, and you are ready to
go. Be sure to get familiar with the on-line Help, which you can find at
the top of the screen.
Now here is the big danger. If you are on a computer that is not
yours and is not managed by DUMC IT, you need to watch out for a KeyLogger
program. This is a program that can disguise itself as something you
think is safe to run, but while you are running it, it logs every
keystroke you make to a file. That includes the name of the computer you
are logging into, your username, password, and everything else you type.
After you leave the person who installed it comes back, reads the file and
has everything they need to log on as you. For that reason you should
connect to the geri web mail system only on a computer that you control or
which is managed by DUMC IT. Go ahead and google "keylogger" to see just
how easy it is to get one.
Contact irv'at'geri.duke.edu with questions and comments.
Released: Oct. 19, 2007
