eHelpYour Cal Poly Pomona email can be delivered to the Exchange server or sent to a forwarding address of your choice.
Why?
Cal Poly Pomona provides all employees and students (and some others, too) with an email address and 50 megabytes (students) or 100 megabytes (employees) of storage on the CPP Exchange system. You can access your Cal Poly email using Outlook Web Access (OWA) or with most email "clients" (an email program you run on your own computer), including Microsoft Outlook, Entourage, Mac Mail or Thunderbird. With most email clients, you can connect either by SSL POP3 (you download all your mail) or SSL IMAP (you view the mail while it's still on the mail server). Back in the Twentieth Century, for many users, the Cal Poly Pomona address was all they had.
The Exchange system also allows you to keep your calendar, set up meetings, and track your tasks.
But there are a couple of reasons you might want to forward your email.
"Effective with the fall 2004 quarter, e-mail is the primary way in which Cal Poly Pomona communicates with students on virtually every topic, including registration, general information, fees and deadlines." If you are a student, you can't afford not to read your Cal Poly email. You might be thinking, "I'll get around to it," but think again. Remember those 50 megabytes of space? Once they fill up (because you didn't check your email), new messages "bounce", and you never see them.
By forwarding your Cal Poly Pomona email to an account you actually check, especially if it has more storage space, you avoid this.
When students graduate and employees terminate employment, their email addresses go away. So you probably don't want all your friends emailing you only at your Cal Poly address. If you forward, you get to see all your mail in one mailbox, and when you leave, you never have to deal with it again. (Although email addresses are provided to alumni, they aren't the same as your student email address.)
NOTE: The campus Exchange service provides an email and calendaring system for faculty, staff, students, auxiliary organizations and sponsored affiliates. Click here for more details.
The following steps will assist you in changing your Cal Poly Pomona email settings such that your email messages are delivered to your Exchange account. After changing your email forwarding, make sure you reconfigure your Outlook client application for the Exchange server. Click here for instructions in reconfiguring your Outlook client.
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If you have any questions about this process, please contact the I&IT HelpDesk at X6776.
If you have any questions about this process, please contact the I&IT HelpDesk at X6776.
