Indiana University

IU email systems

Following is an overview of the existing email systems at Indiana University. Each campus allocates email accounts slightly differently. To find out exactly which options are available at your campus, see Email at each IU campus.

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Email for students

IU students have two options for email and other online communication services: Imail (powered by Microsoft) and Umail (powered by Google).

For more, see Imail and Umail.

Note: On October 29, 2009, UITS began migrating undergraduate student accounts from the IU Webmail (Cyrus) system to the Google-sponsored Umail system. For more, see About the automatic email account migration from IU Webmail (Cyrus) to Umail.

Cyrus mail system

Note: On October 29, 2009, UITS began migrating undergraduate student accounts from the IU Webmail (Cyrus) system to the Google-sponsored Umail system. For more, see About the automatic email account migration from IU Webmail (Cyrus) to Umail.

The Cyrus mail system provides straightforward email. For more, see IU's Cyrus mail

Depending on the arrangements at your campus, you may be able to reach your mail in one or more of the following ways:

Note: The options above are simply different clients with which to read your email. They are independent of your mailbox. To change between them, you do not have to set up special forwarding for your mail. Regardless of the client you use, incoming mail will be delivered to your account on the Cyrus mail system.

Integrated departmental messaging: Microsoft Exchange

If you need integrated messaging features such as a shared departmental calendar, an Exchange account may be appropriate. Exchange accounts are available for staff and faculty at all IU campuses, and for sponsored students at IU Bloomington and IUPUI. For more, see Exchange accounts

You may access your Exchange account as follows:

More options

  • Some departments offer their own mail servers for their members. Contact your department's computing support provider for details.

  • If you maintain your own Unix or Linux workstation and would like to receive your mail there, the Support Center can help with configuration information, including customized sendmail distributions.

  • You can use a non-IU mail provider, such as Hotmail, Gmail, or another third-party Internet service provider (ISP). However, if you choose this option, it is unlikely that UITS or your department will be able to provide much help if you run into problems. Also, you are still responsible for reading email sent to your IU account; see Information about official communications from the university to students

Whichever option you choose, be sure to set your preferred address so that your email will be directed to the right system. For more information, see Registering your preferred address

When you graduate

For information about lifelong IU email addresses available to all IU alumni, see What happens to your student computing accounts when you leave IU, graduate, transfer to another campus, or study abroad?

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