The email must not be used for archiving documents, that is why the COOPI Cloud exists.
If you do not have access to the cloud you have to ask the Head of Mission or the Regional Coordinator for permission.
When closing the email address all messages and their attachments will be lost.
For further information, please refer to the following procedures:
Procedure 8- "Financial and administrative management of foreign country offices"
Procedure 6- "Project management"
Procedure 12- "Purchasing"
Configuration of an email account for Cooperazione Internazionale
Once you have installed the application, which can be downloaded from the Mozilla Foundation website at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all.html, start it. When started for the first time, the program displays a welcome window like the following (Picture 1), where you need to fill in "Your full name", "Email address" and "Password" with the values you have been provided with. Then click on "Configure manually" to proceed.
Picture 1: click on "Configure manually", as highlighted
On the next screen (Picture 2) you need to type the parameters for the Incoming Server and the Outgoing Server. Make sure that, for both, the "Server" field is mail.coopi.org and the "Connection security" field is STARTTLS. Check that "Username" is filled in with your email address, as communicated to you, before clicking "Done". The "Protocol" field in the part relating to the Incoming Server must be left on "IMAP".
Picture 2: fill in the fields appropriately and click "Done"
Below are parameters of the COOPI email server.
Incoming server: IMAP
Hostname: mail.coopi.org
Port: 143
Connection security: STARTTLS
Authentication methond: Normal Password
Outgoing Server: SMTP
Hostname: mail.coopi.org
Port: 587
Connection security: STARTTLS
Authentication method: Normal Password
If you need further support, please write to the COOPI IT Office at the email address gnu@cooopi.org.
