E-Mail at Northwestern

Northwestern University provides faculty, staff, and students with an e-mail service, available after activating a NetID.

As a member of the Northwestern community, you receive a mailbox when you activate your NetID. Your mailbox is the key to receiving all Northwestern e-mail.

The centrally provided WebMail service enables Web-based access to an account (@northwestern.edu), which is located on one of four University central mail servers (casbah, hecky, lulu, or merle).

Eligible students have the option of activating an @u.northwestern.edu collaboration account in lieu of the centrally-provided account.

You can access your centrally provided NU e-mail account once your NetID is activated, and you can immediately begin to use NU's WebMail. WebMail requires no set-up and it's a secure and easy way to check your e-mail from anywhere: on or off campus, home, the library, etc.

Going on vacation? Faculty and staff can set a vacation message with Mail Tools.

To forward your e-mail to another account:

• Faculty and Staff
• Students
• Alumni
  

• E-mail Set Up Overview
• Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
• Department & Organization Accounts
• E-mail Restoration
• Control Junk E-mail
• Set Up for Directory Searching
• E-mail Policies and Guidelines
• Listserv
• WebMail
• @u.northwestern.edu Overview
• Alumni E-mail Forwarding
• Faculty/Staff E-mail Forwarding
• Student E-mail Forwarding
  

NUIT Support Center

Central helpdesk for faculty, staff, and students.
847-491-HELP (4357)
consultant@northwestern.edu