Faculty/Staff: Once all of your employment paperwork has been filed with Human Resources, your accounts are created. All of your information is returned to Human Resources, so contact them for your information.

How Do I Check My Email?

The easiest way to check your email is to use Mailport, which is web-based. However, you may use other email clients, including Thunderbird and Outlook Express. If using Thunderbird, please make sure your settings are properly configured.

Spam and Trash Deletion

A good deal of your spam is tagged and moved to a spam folder without ever coming to your Inbox. Occasionally, messages that you actually want are also tagged as spam. You should check the spam folder every few days to make sure nothing of importance has been tagged. In Mailport, you will see this folder immediately, but in Thunderbird, you will need to subscribe to the spam folder.

Spam is automatically deleted from your spam folder after 14 days. Messages in your Trash folder are automatically deleted 90 days after the message was first received (not after it was first trashed).

What is a Network Account?

When you are using a computer on campus, you are required to log into the campus network. By logging in, you have access to all of your network drives and folders, including your P-drive (your personal drive). The P-drive is a place where you can store important files and the files will be backed up by IT, so you will never lose anything. In addition, you can access your P-drive from anywhere on campus or even from home. So, work you do in one location can be retrieved in another location. We strongly encourage you to keep all of your work in a network folder to ensure that nothing is lost if your computer is ever to crash.