Archive for May, 2010

How to ditch Cubmail with email forwarding

May 04 2010 Published by admin under Tutorials

Cubmail  is a technological inconvenience many Columbia students have come to accept. But it need not be so. With just a few steps, leave Cubmail for one of its much hotter sisters, Gmail. Here’s how:

Part I, The Beast

  1. Navigate to http://uni.columbia.edu/filters with your browser of choice, where you’ll find this nondescript and rather ambiguous login form:


  2. Enter your uni and password, and click “Log in”. Once complete, you’ll be greeted with this lovely interface:

  3. Click the “Forward” icon in the middle of the row of icons at the top of the page. You should then see this form:

  4. Enter the alternative email address that you wish to receive email at (use a Gmail address if you wish to follow the rest of this tutorial using Gmail), and click “Save”. Congratulations! You’re now done with CubMail, forever! It was nice while it lasted.

Part II, The Beauty

Setting up Gmail to send emails with your Columbia email address is the perfect way to christen your new relationship with Google’s Ajax-erific mail client.

  1. Once logged in to your Gmail account, in the upper right hand corner of the google page, click Settings.

  2. From Settings, select the “Accounts and Import” tab.

  3. Click the “Send mail from another address” button.

  4. Enter your Columbia email address, and click “Next Step”. Select “Send through columbia.edu SMTP servers.”



  5. Enter your uni and password, and click “Add Account”. Once complete, Gmail will send an email to your Columbia email address.
  6. If you followed the first part of this tutorial and enabled email forwarding, you should be able to reload your inbox and find the email waiting for you in your Gmail account. If you’re feeling nostalgic you can go back to Cubmail to find the email. Click the confirmation link in the email to complete the process.

  7. You can now send emails from your Gmail account with your Columbia email address as the sender. When you go to send an email, there will now be a drop-down box by the “From:” field, which you can use to switch between your linked addresses.

Here’s to wishing you a long and healthy relationship with your new email client!

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Columbia-Printers: Columbia Printing Made Easy

May 04 2010 Published by admin under Tools

Reuben Doetsch and Ryan Bubinski, both CC ’11, have written a ruby gem that will add all Columbia NINJA printers to your Mac (sorry PC-types). If you never want to be short on printing options again, here are the details:

  1. Open up the terminal.
  2. To do this, Go to spotlight and search for “Terminal”. I know it looks scary, but don’t worry; we’ll walk you though the steps.
  3. At the terminal prompt, type type “sudo gem update self”
    It will then ask you for a password. Enter your the password you use to log into your machine.
  4. Once the update is complete, type “sudo gem install columbia-printers”. This will install the columbia-printers gem to your computer.
  5. After columbia-printers is finished installing, type “sudo columbia-printers” to launch the program. A menu will pop up that looks like this:
    1.) Add printer
    2.) Add all printers
    3.) Quit
  6. After running option 2, you’ll have all the printers at Columbia installed to your machine.
  7. Celebrate your newfound publishing options by printing the Complete Works of Shakespeare.

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