This will help provide more seamless communication with the rest of the Institute.Īgain, even in these circumstances, we recommend that the address you publish in the RIT Directory be your basic e-mail address (like " This does not affect the behind-the-scenes forwarding of your mail to the other system, or delivery of mail from those people who choose to send messages directly to your e-mail address on the other system. It will also allow some official RIT mail to reach you properly at your address, even if you aren't reading mail from the main RIT system. Why? This will let others who are using the campus-wide mail system find you to send you mail, if needed, through the on-line RIT Directory. You can set mail forwarding to send your mail to the other mail system.
So, we strongly recommend that you update your identity and e-mail preferences at. That way way, any mail sent to your address gets to where you actually read your mail. However, you can provide a link by making sure that your mail is forwarded to the mail system you actually use. If you are using one of these systems, you should be aware that they are not necessarily linked to your RIT computer account (or its associated e-mail addresses). Some departments at RIT have chosen to operate their own mail systems - either now or at times in the past. You may turn mail forwarding on and off at /MailPreference. If you have chosen to forward your e-mail to a different e-mail system, then the three addresses described above will all forward to that outside e-mail system.
You also must agree to only use your Google account for RIT business purposes, follow RIT code of Conduct for Computer Use and RIT Network Acceptable Use Guidelines, and agree to the Google Apps for Schools Terms and Agreement. Faculty/Staff can manage this at .īy opting-in to Google Apps, you will have access to Google Docs and Google Drive. The Google Apps at RIT service is an opt-in service for your RIT Computer Account. Learn more about setting up delegates and accessing shared calendars. To customize your subscriptions, please visit.
OLM (also called an archive), follow the steps from Outlook 2013 on Windows and Outlook 2016 on Mac.Īll faculty and staff are automatically subscribed to RITmail, the RIT Communication Center. This can be useful when your computer is upgraded or when you need to keep emails for a long period of time, but don’t want to clog up your inbox. OLM are compressed files that contain your emails and can be reopened on a different computer within Outlook. If you need to save and or backup your emails, Outlook provides a simple way to store them in what is called a.
NOTE: Personalized and name-based e-mail addresses do not provide you with additional accounts, login usernames, or e-mail storage. You can also make your forward to a different e-mail system, if you choose. If you set up personalized (students/faculty/staff) and/or named-based addresses (faculty/staff only), these additional addresses merely point to your RIT Computer Account. Depending on the options you have set up at, you may have more e-mail addresses.
Your RIT Computer Account has at least one e-mail address associated with it. This e-mail account is created when you receive an RIT Computer Account. RIT provides an e-mail address and account for all students, faculty, and staff.