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Account Creation
The SMU Email account is created in conjunction with the normal account creation process. For students, this process occurs upon acceptance into the University. Faculty and Staff accounts are created automatically based on employment data.
Accessing SMU Email
SMU email can be accessed via webmail.smu.edu. In addition, email clients such as Outlook, Entourage, Mac Mail and others can be configured to retrieve mail from the SMU servers. Mail clients can also be configured on cellular phones, PDAs and other mail enabled devices. Please see the list of configuration documents displayed below.
Mail clients can be configured as an Exchange client (either Native or Outlook Anywhere), IMAP, or POP. Exchange client is recommended for all devices. For more details on the configuration options, please click here.
About the SMU Email Account
- @smu.edu and @mail.smu.edu formats are interchangeable
- SMU Email can not be forwarded to another email address (with the exception of Cox and Physics mail servers)
- The maximum message size allowed by the servers is 30 MB. For sending larger attachments, please use locker.smu.edu.
- Students retain their SMU email account one full year following graduation.
- The current storage quota for faculty and staff is 2 GB.
- The current storage quota for students is 1 GB.
- Spam filtering is provided automatically on the server.
- Client side spam filters are also available.
- All names and addresses automatically populate the Global Address List. This address list is available in Webmail, and may be available in other email clients depending on the configuration.