UVa Student/Alumni Email Transition
Moving Current Students & '06–'08 Alumni to Private Email Vendors
About the UVa Student/Alumni Email Transition
ITC is working in conjunction with Student Council, the Alumni Association, and the UVa Development Office to dramatically enhance student email by partnering with private service providers. The University's collaboration with Google and Microsoft is a new and innovative approach to student email. Both companies offer tools and integration with other applications that UVa's older Central Mail Service (CMS) does not.
Key Benefits of the Overhaul
- Complete Communication Packages: Both vendors offer a suite of online communication tools in addition to email, including instant messaging (IM), online document sharing, calendaring, Web publishing tools, and more.
- More Modern, Sophisticated Email Interface: The user interfaces for both Google and Microsoft are also considerably more modern and user-friendly than UVa's older, legacy CMS WebMail system.
- UVa Email for Life: A particularly beneficial aspect of the overhaul is that students can now retain their UVa email account for life, and upon leaving the University, their messages and folders will be preserved.
Timeline for the UVa Email Transition
NEW Update on Migrations:
As of Tuesday, August 19th, 2008, all students who have not yet selected a vendor for migration will automatically be placed in the queue for migration to UVa Gmail.
Note: Once your account is migrated, you have 45 days to continue to access your old UVa messages via WebMail before your old CMS WebMail account is deleted.
Manage Your Email Address(es) Using the Email Address Management System
You may use the UVa Email Address Management System to:
- Create and manage your email aliases, if desired (e.g., if your computing ID is mst3k, you may use the System to request an email alias such as miketurner@email.virginia.edu, in addition to your primary address of mst3k@virginia.edu); and
- Direct where you want your UVa email delivered, if desired (e.g., you may use the System to set where you read your UVa email messages—such as in another, personal email account).
Accessing Your UVa Email in the Interim
Go to www.mail.virginia.edu to check your email, and from there, select which account you'd like to log into: your older UVa CMS account, or your new account(s) with the private vendor(s).
Note: After you queue your account to be migrated to the vendor of your choice, you'll have to decide how you want to use your new email account until your the migration of your existing CMS mail to your vendor of choice is completed. You may:
- Continue receiving new email in your CMS account for now, with no new mail delivered to your new account, until your CMS mail is migrated to your new account;
- Or, begin receiving new email messages in your new account now, and access your older email messages on the CMS, until your CMS mail is migrated to your new account.
The default selection is the first option—continue to read email as you normally do, until you see an email message telling you otherwise.