Services :: WebMail
Overview
WebMail - Allows you to access your HSU email from any computer that has a Web browser and access to the Internet. This includes any computer on campus or off campus that is connected to the internet. For example, if you had a PC or Macintosh computer at home with a Netscape Web browser and a connection to the Internet, you could read and reply to your email from home without the need to first telnet into your HSU email account. SquirrelMail is the webmail package on the HSU email server.
Need to Know
- Your HSU email account needs to be activated before you can use WebMail.
- A session will time out after 30 minutes of account inactivity (activity includes checking mail and sending mail, not reading or typing messages). If your are timed out, you will need to log back into the system. If you were in the middle of typing a message, you will lose the message, unless you selected the Draft button. A suggestion to keep from being timed out is to click the Draft button often.
- Quota Warning: Sent mail, deleted mail, messages in folder, and messages that you are storing in your inbox need to be deleted regularly or your account will exceed the storage limit, also referred to as quota. You may not be able to log into your account and you will not be able to received new mail until you delete messages.
- Check Disk Quota - Check the disk quota limit of your email account.
- A Pine address book cannot be imported into WebMail.
