UW Email
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- Activate Your UW Email Service
- Access Your UW Email
- Configure a Desktop Client for UW Email
- Three Ways to Access UW Email
- Managing Your UW Email
UW Email (also known as UW Deskmail) is an email service available for current UW faculty and staff; UW retirees; and some other affiliates of the University.
Activate Your UW Email Service
Activate the UW Email Inbox via your Manage UW NetID Resources Web page.
Access Your UW Email
You may also access your UW Email via a terminal session connected to the Homer or Dante computers. Or you may use a desktop email client program.
Configure a Desktop Email Client for UW Email
UW Email can be accessed via desktop email client programs like Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail, Macintosh Mail and others, as well as from an iPad/iPhone. See Configuring Your Email Programs for UW Email
Three Ways to Access UW Email
Three ways are available for you to interact with and use UW Email:
- Use an email program on your computer or phone
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- Configuration instructions for several programs are in the Configuring Your Email Program for UW Email page.
- Many smartphones can run email programs that can be configured to work with UW Email. Configuration instructions can be found on the Smartphones pages
- Use Web Alpine through your Web browser
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- Web Alpine works well for email when traveling, such as when you are at a conference or a cyber-cafe.
- Web Alpine allows you to send and save attachments directly using your local desktop computer.
- For Web Alpine to work properly, the browser you are using must have SSL security, cookies, and Javascript turned on.
- Use Alpine on Homer, Dante, or other computers
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- Alpine is a text-only email program. It cannot display graphics. Alpine has many power features.
- You access Alpine with a terminal program such as TeraTerm SSH for Windows (available on the Safe and Secure Computing page) or the Terminal application on Macintosh OSX computers.
- Attachments cannot be saved directly to your desktop computer. A file transfer program such as WIN SCP ( available on the Get and Use Secure File Transfer Tools page) must be used to move the file from Homer or Dante to your local computer.
- Using a terminal session program and Alpine works well on slower computers or when you have a slow connection speed, such as when you are using a modem.
Managing Your UW Email
- Check your disk space usage
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- Go to Your Usage of
UW Deskmail Storage Space
- See how much space all your email is using
- See total usage compared to your storage space allocation
- See which folders are using the most space
- Go to Your Usage of
UW Deskmail Storage Space
- Manage your UW Email Storage Space
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- Go to the Managing Your UW
Email Storage Space page
- Learn about your email storage quota
- Learn about over quota messages you might receive
- Learn about adjusting your email storage space or purchasing more space
- Go to the Managing Your UW
Email Storage Space page
- Manage your UW Email services
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- Go to the Manage UW NetID
Resources page
- Forward your UW email to another address
- Stop your UW email (All messages sent to your UW email address will be returned to the sender as undeliverable.)
- Go to the Manage UW NetID
Resources page
- Set a vacation message or filter, block, reject, or sort messages
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- Go to the
Email Delivery Manager (EDM) pages
- Control messages delivered to your UW Email Inbox
- Set an out-of-office reply (vacation) message to be sent to anyone who sends you email while you are gone
- Filter out spam into a separate folder
- Block messages from a particular email address, deleting them without response
- Sort messages automatically into folders as they arrive
- Go to the
Email Delivery Manager (EDM) pages
- Backup and Recovery
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- Go to the
Backup and Recovery of UW Email Folders page.
- Check whether your UW Email data is included in backups
- Backups are usually made each day
- Only recent backups are stored
- Recovering lost email
- Go to the
Backup and Recovery of UW Email Folders page.
