UNM Email

Accessing Your Email
Alternative Email Programs
Setting Up an Email Auto-Reply
Forwarding Your Email
Managing Your Email Disk Space

Your NetID comes with an email account with 150MB of disk space. You must have a NetID to begin using email. Go to NetID Accounts to create your NetID.

Accessing Your Email

How you access our email varies depending on your affiliation with the University.

Students

Students are encouraged to access eamil via the MyUNM portal, or Webmail, UNM's Web-based email program. Both are accessible from anywhere you have Internet access and work with all standard browsers including, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, Safari, and Opera.

If Web-based email doesn’t meet your needs, or you simply prefer your own desktop email application, you can access your email using a variety of popular programs, such as Macintosh Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Outlook and Outlook Express, PINE, etc.

See Modifying Your Email Program to Work with Your NetID Account for detailed instructions.

Faculty and Staff

ITS recommends that faculty and staff who are using GroupWise use the email included in GroupWise.

Faculty and staff who are not using GroupWise may bhoose Webmail of any preferred desktop email application, e.g., Outlook and Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Macintosh Mail, etc.

See Modifying Your Email Program to Work with Your NetID Account for detailed instructions.

Administrators

Administrators using GroupWise calendar should use the email included in GroupWise.

Alternative Email Programs

If Web-based email doesn’t meet your needs, or you simply prefer your own desktop email application, you can access your email using a variety of popular programs, such as Outlook and Outlook Express, Eudora, Thunderbird, Macintosh Mail, etc.

See Modifying Your Email Program to Work with Your NetID Account for detailed instructions.

IMAP or POP?

When configuring your email program, ITS recommends you use IMAP instead of POP.

IMAP leaves your email messages on the server until they are deleted and/or expunged, making it easier for you to access your email from any computer with Internet access, e.g., at home, on campus, or wherever you happen to be.

POP downloads your messages to the computer you are currently using, then deletes, or expunges, them from the server. You may use POP, but you should be aware of its limitations and have a specific need for that configuration, e.g., you read or send email from only one computer.

Mulberry

Mulberry is an email program still used by some UNM students, faculty, and staff.

Mulberry continues to be supported by ITS.

For more information about using Mulberry, search FastInfo or see:

Setting Up an Email Auto-Reply

If you’re going to be away and unable to check your email, you can set up an auto-reply to all messages received by your account. See How to #503 – Create an email auto-reply.

Forwarding Your Email

You can forward your email to another Web-based email account, such as Comcast, Google, Hotmail, .mac, Yahoo, etc. See How to #504 – Forward your UNM electronic mail.

Managing Your Email Disk Space

Your UNM email account comes with 150 MB of disk space. Webmail continuously displays how much disk space you have used (default view) and automatically alerts you when you approach the limit of your email disk space.

To conserve email disk space:

Promptly delete unwanted messages, especially those with large attachments, such as images and PDF files.
If you use a desktop email program with POP, make sure your preferences or settings are configured to remove messages from the server after download.
Unsubscribe from unwanted electronic mailing lists, or stop delivery of mail while you are away and unable to check your email. Go to UNM's Listserv Page or see Techniques for Managing Your UNM NetID Disk Space for instructions.

Need Help?

Go to FastInfo or contact the ITS Support Center at 277.4848.