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Email at the UW

UW Email Quick Links

Configure your desktop email program (Outlook Express, Mozilla Mail, PC-Pine, and OS-X Mailer)

Check your storage space usage

Get McAfee Anti-Virus software for Windows or Macintosh, free for UW faculty, staff, and students

Filter out junk mail (spam) with the Email Delivery Manager

Fight viruses, worms, and spam

Manage your UW Email account - Forwarding, changing your password or secret question, and more

Getting Started With UW Email

To make email work most effectively, we suggest that you:

  1. Pick the email programs that work best for you.
  2. Read tips on using your email.
  3. Find out what you should do to help fight viruses and worms and spam.
  4. Learn how to manage your email: how to set vacation messages, automatically sort email into folders, and more.
  5. Take time to review the guidelines and rules.

UW Email is available for current UW students, faculty, staff, and many other affiliates of the university. Alumni and other former UW students can get email accounts through the new MyUW.net service.