Email Info Quick Links
- Alumni Email Accounts
- Browsers recommended for OWA
- Change Password Instructions
- Listservs
- Mail-Enabled Public Folder Info
- Maximize your storage, reduce the size of files with these techniques
- Mobile Device - Connect to email
- SPAM settings
- Teal Email Archive (faculty/staff)
Find your mailbox size
- Outlook 2010
- Right-click on your Inbox, select Properties and click on the Folder Size button. This gives a breakdown of all your folders.
- Outlook 2007
- Right-click on your mailbox (it is listed as Mailbox - Your Name) and select Properties. Click on the Folder Size button. This gives a breakdown of all your folders.
- OWA (Premium Version)
- Hover your mouse over your name on the left hand panel of the screen to display your file size. (There currently is no way to check your mailbox size using the "light" version of OWA.)
All About UNCW Email
New Accounts
Faculty & Staff
- Please make sure your supervisor has requested your email account. Accounts must be requested via an account request form (PDF)
- Username - your last name followed by your first initial (or a similar format, if your particular username is already in use). Look up your username.
- Email address is your username@uncw.edu (i.e., robinsonr@uncw.edu)
- Default mailbox size is 300 MB - includes ALL subfolders, calendars, etc.
- 280 MB - you will receive a warning notice
- 300 MB - mailbox is unable to send or receive until messages are archived or deleted from the server
- Faculty/staff have access to the Teal Email Archive with "virtually unlimited" email storage.
- Passwords expire every 90 days.
- Email message size limit (including attachments): 25 MB
- May not send a message to more than 300 recipients.
- Can be accessed through mySeaport or directly at http://mail.uncw.edu. You may also access from the UNCW Faculty & Staff page.
- Note: Please be aware that messages in your Junk Mail folder and Deleted Items folder will be deleted after 7 days.
Students
- Accounts are created upon acceptance to the university.
- Username is your first, middle and last initial followed by four random digits. Look up your username.
- Email address is your username@uncw.edu (i.e., abc1234@uncw.edu)
- Default mailbox size is 1GB - includes ALL subfolders, calendars, etc.
- 990 MB - you will receive a warning notice
- 995 MB - you will be able to receive but not send email
- 1 GB - mailbox is closed and you will not be able to send or receive until messages are archived or deleted from the server
- Passwords expire every 90 days.
- Email message size limit (including attachments): 25 MB
- May not send a message to more than 300 recipients. (Note: To request an exception and send to more recipients, view this AskTAC solution.)
- Can be accessed through mySeaport or directly at http://mail.uncw.edu. You may also access from the UNCW Current Students page.
- Note: Please be aware that messages in your Junk Mail folder and Deleted Items folder will be deleted after 7 days.
Alumni Email Accounts
Student accounts will be deleted after the drop/add period the fall or spring semester following separation from UNCW. Separation is defined as graduation, transfer, leave of absence, etc. Students who have separated from the university are not able keep their "uncw.edu" email account.
All graduates of 2008 to the present have access to alumni email addresses provided by Microsoft's Live@edu. The email address uses the same prefix as your student email, but the domain is changed to "alum.uncw.edu" (i.e., abc1234@alum.uncw.edu). Once you register for an alumni email account, it is yours for life. For additional information, visit the Alumni Association website.
Faculty / Staff Account Deletion
Faculty and staff accounts will be deleted on the day of separation from UNCW. If a faculty or staff member is retiring, they are entitled to keep their email account unless they choose to not do so.
Listservs
Listservs are email discussion groups that can be administered by one or more persons. A listserv is a single email address that, when mailed to, distributes the message to the email addresses of all its members. The lists can be open or moderated depending on the owner/administrator's preference.
To request a listserv, contact the Technology Assistance Center (TAC) and provide the following information: (1) The name of the listserv (i.e., Tactraining - for TAC Training Updates) and (2) the name and email address(es) of the listserv administrator(s).
Note to Student Organizations: You may obtain a Listserv for your Student Organization by filling out
the Technology Request Form (online submission). This form is located on the Student Affairs site.
View instructions for Listserv Administration (PDF) .
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