Reading email
On this page:
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Basics of using email clients
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Setting a preferred address and reading all of
your email there
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Using email
- Your email address
Basics of using email clients
Your email client is the software you use to access your email account. Students create email accounts on the Imail or Umail systems; access is browser-based via the web, although desktop clients can also be used. Many faculty and staff members use a Cyrus account for email. Graduate students, student employees, faculty, and staff may use an Exchange account additionally or instead; Exchange accounts offer administrative functionality like calendaring in addition to email. Not all clients are compatible with all kinds of accounts. The table below shows which clients can be used with which account. (Desktop clients include Outlook, Outlook Express, and Thunderbird.) Follow the appropriate link for available configuration information for your operating system and type of account:
| Imail accounts | On the web | Desktop clients | BlackBerry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Umail accounts | On the web | Desktop clients | BlackBerry |
| Exchange accounts | Outlook Web Access | Desktop clients | BlackBerry |
| Cyrus accounts | IU Webmail | Desktop clients | BlackBerry |
For more information regarding email accounts and clients at IU, see Email at IU: Accounts and clients. For more about reading your IU email on a mobile device (a BlackBerry, iPhone, or PDA), see Reading your email on a mobile device. To read your iMail or uMail on your mobile phone, see Microsoft's Imail Mobile Sync page or Google's Umail Google Sync page.
Setting a preferred address and reading all of your email there
If you have multiple email accounts, you can choose one to be your primary or preferred account, and then have all of your email forwarded from your other accounts to the preferred account.
The university reserves the right to send official communications to students by email with the full expectation that students will receive email and read these messages in a timely fashion. Official university communications will be sent to students' official university email addresses; see Information about official communications from the university to students.
Using email
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Email etiquette
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Information about full headers in email
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Maximum size for email messages at IU
- Preparing an email account for an extended absence
Your email address
Your email address is a combination of your IU username and your
campus email domain. For example, email addresses at IUB take the
form username@indiana.edu, while those at
IUPUI take the form username@iupui.edu.
