I.The use of the Internet service and institutional emails is limited to tasks specifically related to functions assigned to the position of each official.
II.Officially, the institutional email format shall be as follows: First letter of the first name, followed by the first surname, followed by @incopesca. go.cr.
If there are two officials with names that coincide in the first letter of the first name and the first surname, the first one created is assigned the email as explained above and the second one will have a period placed between the first letter of the first name and their first surname.
III.To access the institutional email mailbox, you must do so through the Microsoft Office Outlook icon when at your computer, this for users who are inside the institute. Additionally, you can access through an internet browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Crome, Opera or others) by introducing the following address directly, without typing (http:// or www) type only correo.incopesca.go.cr, this type of access is useful when the official is outside the institute or when their office is not connected to the central offices of INCOPESCA (they are outside the Domain of INCOPESCA).
Next, the user will see a new box where their username and password will be required, it is worth mentioning that the first time you access the institutional email website, through any internet browser, it will show a warning which has to do with the installation of a digital certificate which in this case is completely trustworthy, therefore you must accept its installation. Emphasize that all passwords are exclusively known by each official, since they are encrypted and have a 91-day expiration, this for security policies.
IV.Each institutional mailbox has a capacity of 256 Mb. of memory and files may be attached to electronic messages, no larger than 23 Mb. For this reason, and in order to avoid mailbox saturation, each official must periodically download their messages to the assigned computing equipment or to portable magnetic media.
V.The email account assigned to a user is personal and non-transferable, and its use is MANDATORY for all officials who have assigned equipment connected to the internet within the institution.
VI.Users of institutional electronic mail accounts are responsible for all activities carried out from their electronic mail account, therefore any document sent or received internally will be considered official.
VII.The Informatics Unit will designate a signature format that will be mandatorily used in the emails of all users of the institution. This signature will be the same for all cases and must contain at minimum the official's full name, Position, contact telephone number, and institutional logos. It shall not exceed five lines in a font size between 9 and 10. Using institutional colors and it shall not contain animations or other images.
VIII.Institutional email is an Official communication medium, having validity as an Internal Note, Instruction, and/or Report. It is not a tool for indiscriminate dissemination of information, since circulars, internal notes, instructions, and others concerning the activity carried out by Incopesca will be disseminated through this medium.