Setting up basic facilities

• Phones - The institute has an internal exchange (x8140) that will set up your residential line. On filling out a form pdf of the form?, you can avail of STD/ISD facilities. Request them for an internal telephone directory.
• Email - The computer center will set up your email account username@iitm.ac.in and a web page that you need to update. You can also dial-in to campus network (x5464) with the same username and password to access the internet or check your email. Many departments also run their own mail service. People often find it convenient to get both accounts and use one actively, while forwarding mail from the other account to this active account. contact? Head, Computer Centre is the formal contact; Dr. S. Jayaprakash and P.Y. Sreekumar are the sysadmins who can help you.