Email at IU
Note:
Current students use Gmail at IU. Umail is only for former students who do not have an active status (e.g., faculty, staff) and who separated from IU prior to March 11, 2018; see About the Umail upgrade. If you're unsure about what type of account you have, contact your campus support center.
The following is a small selection of content. For more, search the full Knowledge Base.
On this page:
- Email for students, faculty, and staff
- Access your email
- Manage and secure your email
- Email policies
- Phishing scams and spam
- Troubleshoot
Email for students, faculty, and staff
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 an Exchange account.
Students
- About Gmail at IU
- Imail at IU
Important:No new Imail accounts are being created in preparation for its retirement. UITS will provide at least six months' notice before Imail is discontinued.
- Umail at IU (Former students only)
- Privacy information for Imail, Umail, and Google at IU accounts
Faculty, staff, and graduate students
Access your email
Manage and secure your email
- Secure messages with a digital signature (using S/MIME) at IU
- Default storage space allotments for UITS accounts
- Forward your IU email
- Prepare your IU email accounts for an extended absence
- Student computing accounts when you leave IU, transfer campuses, study abroad, or have active military service
Email policies
- Avoid getting in trouble with email
- About student email accounts and IU employment
- About chain mail
- About IU's policy on surveys via email
- About IU's policy on official communications from the university to students
- Your responsibility if you give your passphrase to someone who sends harassing email from your account
- About IU's policy on mass email
- About IU's policy on using information technology resources for commercial advertisement
Phishing scams and spam
- Avoid phishing scams
- About phishing education at Indiana University
- About the PhishMe Reporter add-in
- Spam and email virus prevention at IU
- About email fraud
- If you receive a computer virus alert message via email
Troubleshoot
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- If you are affiliated with Indiana University and need help with a computing problem, please use the I need help with a computing problem section above, or contact your campus Support Center.