Email Topics & Instructions
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Getting Started
A free @Stanford email account is one of the benefits of a regular full service SUNetID. Decide which Stanford-supported email program you want to use for accessing your email account, then configure it to work with Stanford's email system. Use web-based Stanford Email to get up and running right away.
- Request a SUNet ID
- Email programs at Stanford
- Web-based email
- Mobile devices (iPhone, Windows Mobile, Palm Treo)
Choosing and Setting Up an Email Program
Stanford supports a variety of email programs for Windows and Macintosh, as well as a full-featured web-based alternative.
- Select and configure desktop email
- What’s best for you, IMAP or POP?
Doing More
Use the StanfordYou web page to change account settings, reset your password, and maintain directory and emergency contect information.The links listed below all go to StanfordYou. Note: students use axess.stanford.edu to enter or change contact information.
Important Things to Know
Learn about anti-virus and anti-spam measures built into Stanford's mail system; email quotas and how and where to store your email; email after you leave Stanford; and how to restore lost email.
Using Mailing Lists
Mailing lists are an everyday part of Stanford email life, and you can start your own. Instructors use class email lists so they can more easily send announcements to everyone associated with their course.
Accessing your @Stanford Email while Away
Checking your email from off-campus? Use any computer with an Internet connection and a web browser to get access to Stanford Email.
Advanced Information for Stanford Email Service Providers
For system administrators. Learn more and exchange tips and tricks with other email sys admins.
- Outbound mail server rules
- Reading email on a UNIX system
- Routing Email through SMTP relays
- email-partners@lists.stanford.edu
