Email at IU

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• Email at IU
• Accessing your email
• Managing your email
• Email policies at IU
• Spam
• Troubleshooting

Email at IU

IU provides email accounts for all members of the IU community, for both official communication and personal use. Student employees, including AIs, might be required to use a faculty/staff (Exchange or Cyrus) account.

• At IU, what email systems are available?
• Email at each IU campus
• At IU, what is my email address?

Student email

• At IU, what is Imail?
• At IU, what is Umail?

Faculty and staff email

• What is Cyrus mail?
• At IU, what are Exchange accounts, and how do I get one?

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Accessing your email

• Reading your Exchange email
• Reading your Cyrus mail
• Configuring an email client for Imail or Umail

Email clients

• What is IU Webmail?
• What is Outlook Web App (OWA)?
• What is Microsoft Outlook?
• What is Microsoft Entourage?
• What is Mac OS X Mail?
• What is Mozilla Thunderbird and where can I get it?

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Managing your email

• What is the default storage space for various UITS accounts, and how do I request an increase?
• At IU, how do I forward my email?
• How do I prepare my IU email accounts for an extended absence?
• At IU, what happens to my student computing accounts when I leave the university, transfer to another campus, or study abroad?

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Email policies at IU

• What should I know to avoid getting in trouble with email?
• About chain mail
• What is UITS policy on surveys via email?
• At IU, what is the policy about official communications from the university to students?
• If I give my passphrase to someone else who uses my account to send a harassing email message, will I be held responsible?
• What is IU's policy concerning mass mailing via email?

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Spam

• What is spam?
• How can I protect my web pages from email address harvesting?
• What does IU do to protect users from spam and virus-infected email?
• What is email fraud, and what should I do about it?
• What should I do if I receive a computer virus alert message via email?

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Troubleshooting

• At IU, why am I receiving only some of my email, and where is the rest?
• Why am I receiving duplicate copies of email messages, and how do I stop it?
• Why am I receiving two copies of messages sent to a LISTSERV mailing list?

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