Zentraler Informatikdienst

Test e-mail – testing e-mail account

You can use the e-mail address echo@univie.ac.at to test an e-mail account. You can use this service anywhere and with every e-mail address. 

  1. Send an e-mail to echo(at)univie.ac.at.
  2. You will receive an automatically generated e-mail with the following content at the sender address: 

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 Vienna University Computer Center - Echo Service

 echo@univie.ac.at

 This message was generated upon your request by the

 automatic answering service.

 Answers are limited to _one_every_two_minutes_ to

 prevent abuse!

 Attached you'll find the first 4 kByte of your mail.

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In addition, the automatically generated reply contains the headers and first 4 KB of your initial e-mail.

The system only answers to one e-mail every 2 minutes per sender address.