Nexus

This article applies to Group B which contains those people who have been using both the Physics server and the Nexus service. The final stages of the migration of group B started on Friday 2nd March at around 2300 and should complete in stages over the weekend with all data transferred before the start of the working week.

This article applies to Group A which contains those people who currently only use the Physics server and NOT the Nexus service. The migration of this group started at 18.00 on Friday 2nd March and finsihed around 2 hours later.

If you haven't already. please make sure you can

get to your Nexus365 mailbox using a web browser.

Some people find web-based or other graphical mail clients cumbersome or unwieldy, and there are circumstances under which using a graphical interface is inconvenient or simply not possible. Here are our recommendations for text-based mail clients on desktop systems in Physics.

MFA

The university is starting a policy of requiring MFA for logins, this means when it is enabled app passwords must be created and used for text-based mail clients. Generating them is completely reliant on central IT, please follow the instructions here and generate one before configuration:

The IT review reported in late 2014 and concluded that a number of changes should be made regarding Physics email. To this end, the Physics email server will be run down in favour of the equivalent campus system, NEXUS.