Owls Mail
Announcement - Sept. 30, 2010
If you have not signed up for the new student email system "OWLS," you must do so by Sunday, October 3, 2010. Starting October 4, you will no longer be able to access the MySCSU email system. If you have important email messages that are currently stored in your MySCSU mailbox, please back up the messages by October 3. The best way to back up the messages is to forward the messages to your OWLS email account. If you use a third-party email account, after you have signed up for OWLS, please follow the instructions at http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/ms.exch.ecp.learnredirectto.aspx?ref=search&sl=1 to set up auto-forwarding in OWLS.
To sign up for OWLS, please follow the direction at http://www.southernct.edu/oit/accountsandmail/owlsemail/.
Owls Mail is here!
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what is owls mail?
As of April 1, 2010, Southern students have a whole new email system -- Owls Mail -- with an accompanying suite of helpful services.
If you are a Southern student, you must convert to Owls Mail, as it will be the university's official means of communicating with you. You should have activated your new account by May 15, 2010. You will find that your Owls Mail ID gets you way more than a normal mail account. It gets you way more than email. It gets you way more than a lot of things! With your new ID, you can free up space on your hard drive, hold group meetings without leaving your couch, remember to call your mom, and discover many new ways to make your life easier.
IS owls mail optional?
No. The conversion to Owls Mail is mandatory for all students. Your Southern email account is the university's official means of communicating with you. If you don't activate your Owls Mail account, you will not receive important messages about course registration, billing, financial aid, housing, graduation, or other matters pertaining to your SCSU student status.
what services come with owls mail?
Need more storage space in your Southern email account? With Owls Mail, a huge amount of extra storage space is just the beginning...
Your Owls Mail account comes with the following Web-based services:
- 10 GB of mail storage (more than 200 times your current space limitations)
- Mobile access
- Built-in spam filter
- POP3 Supported
- No ads for current students
- Calendar
- Office Live -- gives you the opportunity to collaborate on documents and view Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files from anywhere that you have an Internet connection. You can store up to 5 GB and share your workspaces with other users.
- SkyDrive -- SkyDrive offers 25 GB of data storage for you to store documents, photos, and Internet favorites online (more than 500 times your current U drive space)
Learn more about these services at the Microsoft Live@edu site.
How Do I Get Owls Mail?
Click here to activate your new email account -- it's an easy process.
The activation period for current students is April 1-May 15, 2010.
Your "username@southernct.edu" email address will work until Sept. 30, 2010, but on Oct. 1, 2010, it will be deactivated. Make sure to let everyone in your address book know of your new address -- "username@owls.southernct.edu."
