ARCHIVED: Email accounts available at IU

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	IU Exchange	Cyrus	Imail	Umail
Main KB document	ARCHIVED: Exchange accounts at IU	ARCHIVED: What is IU Webmail?	ARCHIVED: About Imail at IU (Retired)	ARCHIVED: About Umail at IU (Retired)
Product	Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 & SP1	Cyrus IMAP & Webmail	Outlook Live via Live@EDU	Google Hosted Mail
Hosted by IU?	Yes	Yes	No	No
Default quota? (see Default storage space allotments for UITS accounts)	500MB	100MB	5GB	5+GB
Quota increases?	No	Upon request via Support Center	No	No
Web access^*?	Outlook Web App (see About Outlook on the web at IU)	Webmail (see ARCHIVED: What is IU Webmail?)	https://imail.iu.edu/Default.aspx	https://umail.iu.edu/Default.aspx
IMAP access?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
POP access?	No	No	Yes	Yes
Other access?	Outlook (see ARCHIVED: At IU, in Outlook 2003, how do I access my Exchange mailbox? or ARCHIVED: Set up Outlook for Windows to access your IU Exchange account), Entourage (see ARCHIVED: At IU, in Mac OS X, how do I configure Entourage 2008 to access my Exchange account?), ActiveSync (see About Exchange ActiveSync)	No	ActiveSync (see About Exchange ActiveSync)	No
Available to faculty/staff?	Yes	Yes	No^**	No^**
Available to students?	No	No^***	Yes	Yes
Advanced features? (e.g., rules, forwards, spell check)	Yes (some require Internet Explorer; see ARCHIVED: In Outlook Web App (OWA), what are the "Premium" and "Light" interfaces?)	Yes	Yes (some require Internet Explorer)	Yes
Additional services offered?	No	No	Various; see http://www.microsoft.com/liveatedu/free-hosted-student-email.aspx	Various; see http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html
University business allowed?	Yes	Yes	No (see Important: below)	No (see Important: below)

Important:

Many students are employed in some capacity by Indiana University and use email in their employment, either to communicate with their co-workers and supervisors, or to carry out their job responsibilities. For more about using email to conduct university business, see ARCHIVED: About student email accounts and IU employment.

^*All four email options are accessible in OneStart as well. From the Services tab, select Email. All your IU email accounts will be available.

^**Faculty and staff who have dual roles as students can sign up for all four email options. Note that faculty and staff may not conduct university business from Imail or Umail accounts; see Important: above.

^***All students can choose from the vended products in lieu of Cyrus as of fall semester 2009.