Cornell students now have a new service for their email: Cmail. Along with email, Cmail includes calendar, collaboration, and other tools.
Powered by Google Apps Education Edition, Cmail offers Gmail with a 7.3 GB mailbox and built-in voice and video chat, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and more. All about Cmail.
Cmail accounts are provided automatically to all students (including undergraduates, graduate students, and professional students). To use your Cmail account, you simply need to set it up. You will continue to use your NetID@cornell.edu address (for example, ewe1@cornell.edu) with Cmail.
It's your choice whether to have your Cornell email routed to Cmail. Even if you don't use Cmail for email, you can still use its other features. (You can change the routing for your Cornell email through the Who I Am service -- you'll need your NetID and password.)
A second service for email, calendar, and collaboration -- Umail -- may be available in the future. At this point, a date has not been determined. Powered by Microsoft Live@edu with Outlook Live, Umail would include Outlook Live email and calendar with a 10 GB mailbox, Office Live Workspace, SkyDrive with 25 GB of storage, and more.
Generally speaking, faculty and staff will not have Cmail (or Umail) accounts, and students will not have accounts in the central Exchange service that faculty and staff began using in September 2009. Exceptions can be made to meet very specific needs.
Until 2009, Cornell has had just one email system that faculty, staff, and students shared. You may hear people talk about their postoffice account, or WebMail, or Oracle Calendar.
These are all services that Cornell is replacing with new services that are a better fit for the different needs of faculty, staff, and students.
Students can use Cmail as of April 2009. Faculty and staff began using a central Microsoft Exchange system in September 2009.
Faculty, staff, and students who are not yet using the new services can access the old postoffice system in these ways:
