Alumni Email Forwarding

Upon request, the College will provide any alumnus or alumna with a forwarding email address in the form:
amherst_username@alumni.amherst.edu

Audience: 
Alumni
Features and Benefits: 

The alumni forwarding email service lets you publish a single email address that doesn't change, not matter how many 'real' email accounts you have.

Don't confuse your alumni forwarding address with a mailbox. It is simply a pointer to your real email box.

Requirements: 

You must be an alum of the College--or a soon to be alum--in order to take advantage of this service.

Getting Started: 

You can request an alumni forwarding address or change your forwarding target address on the Amherst College Alumni website.

Email and Calendaring

Amherst students, faculty, and staff automatically receive an Amherst email mailbox when they join the College. Casual employees receive a mailbox at the request of their supervisor. Student organizations can request an email account or a listserv mailing list by using the Campus Center's student organization registration form.

The College email servers run Microsoft Exchange, which provides Email, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and other functions. Your messages and other data remain on the server until you explicitly delete them.

For best operation and access to College calendars, we recommend you use Microsoft Outlook for Windows or Macintosh.

For those who want email only and do not need to use College calendars, we also fully support IMAP email applications such as Mozilla Thunderbird.

For quick email checks—especially when travelling—use the online version of Amherst email, Web Mail, the Outlook Web App (OWA).

Audience: 
Students
Faculty
Staff
Features and Benefits: 

Because your Amherst email is stored on our server,  you see the same messages, contacts, and calendar appointments regardless of whether you access your email from your office, home, or another location.

Students have a 1 GB email quota; faculty and staff have unlimited email storage.

Requirements: 

To access your email via the web interface Outlook Web App (OWA), you need an Internet connection and a web browser such as Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer (IE), Chrome, or Opera.

Supported computer email clients are Outlook 2007, 2010, and 2013 for Windows, and Outloook 2011 for the Mac; Mail for Mac; and Thunderbird for both Windows and Mac.

On a mobile device, to access your Amherst email add an account and if possible/available select Exchange or Microsoft Exchange as the account type to add (other variations of the account type description might include ActiveSync, CorporateSync, or MAPI).

If your device does not offer Exchange or one of the variations listed above as an account type, opt to configure the email manually or set up as an IMAP account type.

Getting Started: 

Access Amherst Email Online using Web Mail

The website address for Amherst email online - Web Mail - is mail.amherst.edu.

Access Amherst Web Mail from the Amherst website by cilcking Tools top right corner of any page then Web Mail.

Set Up Amherst Email by type of Mobile Device

Set Up Amherst Email by Email Client

 

Additional Information: 

 

Set up an Automatic Spam Filter in Outlook

The College's automated spam system does not delete suspected spam emails. Rather, it adds the label {SPAM?} to the subject line of such messages. You can then set up rules using Microsft Outlook that can either move such messages into a spam folder for your later review or delete them automatically
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