Your email is handled by the University Information Services. The system ran is Microsoft Exchange Online. You will sometimes see it refered to as Outlook or ExOL. All current staff and students should have a university email account. If you do not please contact the maths HR office (staff) or maths postgraduate office (research and mphil students).
You can find more information on how to access and use the system at:
https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/service/email
And also on Microsoft's pages: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/outlook
You need to set up MFA to access your university email.
Mail software
- The university supports using Outlook, its webmail and Thunderbird.
We also support, on a best-efforts basis the use of
- pine
- mutt
- thunderbird (maths instructions)
- Our managed linux desktops may have kmail, mailx aka mail and evolution installed; but we do not support those clients. Generic instructions for setting these and other programs are on the UIS website.
Other e-mail considerations
- We have a video on how to first login to ExOL and set up MFA.
- Teaching and Research Shared Role Mailboxes: These are available to staff. Contact the Head of Department's PA for admin or teaching ones; contact the IT Manager for research and other ones.
Each role mailbox needs to have a role address. Please request this at the time you request the mailbox. - For sending large files we run a Zendto server.
- Visitors and collaborators do not usually receive University email accounts.