Email Access

Students can access their email through web mail or forward their email to a client.

To access your email from the web, you can go to the university's home page, then choose Email from the navigation bar at the very top of the page. You can also get to your webmail by typing in https://webmail.ncat.edu in your browser address bar. Login using the email user name and password given to you.

Be sure to allow pop-ups for the University email page.

By clicking on the Mail tab and pulldown menu, you will have access to most of your routine email tasks:

Email Forwarding

1. Log into Webmail

2. From the "Tools" dropdown menu, choose "New Mail Rule."

3. Give the rule a name (eg. Forward Email).

4. From the "Create conditions" dropdown menu, choose "All Documents" and push the "Add" button to add this selection criterion.

5. From the "Create actions" dropdown list, choose "send copy to."

6. Immediately below, enter the email address that you wish to forward your email to.

7. Click the "Add" button to add the action.

8. Click "OK" to create the rule.

Email Storage

Students are provided 500MB of storage space for email messages. You can receive files up to the amount of space you have available in your mailbox.

The following items contribute to your mailbox quota:

• Inbox
• Sent
• Drafts
• Deleted Items
• Contacts
• Junk Email
• Calendar Entries
• Other Sub folders

Avoid reaching your email storage quota by regularly deleting messages and saving attachments to your hard drive or an alternate storage device such as a CD or jump drive.

1. When you reach 80% of your quota, you will get a warning message in your Inbox.

2. When you reach 100%, you will be able to receive mail but will be unable to send mail until you delete unnecessary messages and empty your Deleted Items folder to free up space.

Email Etiquette

Good Email Habits

Bad Email Practices

What About SPAM?

NC A&T uses one of the highest rated SPAM filtering systems available and our SPAM filters are adjusted almost daily - sometimes more often.

SPAMmers are constantly evolving their message formats in order to fool SPAM filters. Their goal is to develop a format that looks so much like legitimate email that the probability of delivery to the recipient is close to 100%. Because of these ever evolving formats, Aggie Tech Support is faced with the constant dilemma of blocking as much SPAM as possible without blocking legitimate email.

Delete SPAM messages when you receive them. You can also set the Junk E-mail filter in Outlook Web Access to drop the messages upon receipt or automatically file them in a junk folder in case you need to review them at a later time.

We realize that a single SPAM message is a nuisance and more than one is an aggravation, especially when it happens day after day. Unfortunately, SPAM is a fact of email life that will not be resolved as long as SPAMmers can profit and the global Internet community fails to take effective action.

Email and Viruses

Viruses are frequently spread in executable files attached to email messages.

The University prevents the spread of malware within the University network by blocking all incoming email with executable file attachments, including compressed executable attachments. Occasionally additional file formats are blocked if there is a particular outbreak infecting computers. There are no such restrictions for outgoing email messages.

Theft and Phishing

Thieves send thousands of email messages every day posing as legitimate, often well-known companies such as banks, e-retailers, and credit card companies in an attempt to get the recipients to reveal personal information. This information can then be used to steal consumers' personal identity data and financial account credentials.

Legitimate businesses don't send email messages asking you to reveal bank or credit card account information and passwords. It's best to delete these messages. If in doubt check with the business, but don't use any of the Internet links or telephone numbers provided in the suspicious message.