NYU Email

• About Email at NYU
• NYUHome and NYU-NET
• NYUHome Email Addresses & Aliases
• NYU Email Security Features
• Basic Configuration Information
• Filter Out Email Spam with NYUHome!
• NYU Email Direct

About Email at NYU

ITS provides email service to NYU faculty and staff members, and students in degree or diploma programs, both in the United States and overseas. For information on policies relating to email at NYU, visit the ITS Policies page of this website.

NYUHome and NYU-NET

Email can be read via a web browser through the NYUHome portal or by using a desktop email client such as Thunderbird, Eudora, or Outlook Express. For instructions on accessing your NYU email, see the Email Configuration page. For software to help you gain quick, secure access to your email through NYU-NET and NYUHome, see the ITS-Licensed Software page.

Information on how to access NYUHome and other Internet services provided over NYU-NET (NYU's campus-wide data network) around campus, from your home, or from your office are detailed in the Connect to NYU-NET section of this website.

NYUHome Email Addresses & Aliases

The format of your official NYU email address is YourNetID@nyu.edu (e.g., aqe123@nyu.edu), but you may also set up a personal email address of your own choosing through NYUHome. Instructions for configuring this personal address are available at www.nyu.edu/its/email/address/.

Email aliases are also available for NYU departments. A departmental alias is set up in the format: school or division abbreviation.department name@nyu.edu (e.g., its.clientservices@nyu.edu). The departmental alias points mail sent to the alias an individual's email address or to those of a group of individuals. It can also send mail to a NYU Forum. For guidelines and to request a departmental alias, follow the instructions in the NYU Web Guide.

NYU Email Security Features

In our ongoing effort to provide the highest level of service, ITS provides the following security features and services to help protect your information:

• The NYUHome email client uses SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption to help protect the privacy of your incoming email. When configuring a non-NYU email program, be sure to enable SSL for your incoming mail. Click here for instructions.
• ITS no longer delivers some types of email attachments that are frequently used by email viruses to infect Microsoft Windows computers. To help protect NYU's network and your computer against these viruses, attachments which end in .bat, .cmd, .com, .hta, .lnk, .pif, .reg, .scr, and .vbs are no longer be delivered.
• NYU Email automatically checks your incoming email for viruses and, before delivering it, removes any that are found. ITS contacts individuals whose computers have become infected by email viruses that were not immediately detected.
• NYUHome's customizable spam filter is turned on by default (and set to "Light") in all new NYUHome email accounts. See below for important information about the NYUHome spam filter.

Basic Configuration Information

See the Email Configuration tab for instructions on how to connect to your NYU email.

Filter Out Email Spam with NYUHome!

An ITS-implemented spam filter is included as part of your NYUHome service. Spam is unsolicited bulk email. Since it is difficult to definitively classify an email as spam, the spam-filtering software operating at the NYU email gateways scans incoming email from non-NYU addresses for attributes characteristic of spam. When it finds these attributes, it gives the email a "score." The higher the score, the more likely that the message is spam. For more information about the NYU spam filter, and for instructions on how to use it with non-NYU email clients like Eudora and Outlook, see the Spam section.

NYU Email Direct

NYU Email Direct is a bulk email service through which pre-authorized NYU faculty, staff, and administrators can request to send an email message to a segment or segments of the University community or to the entire University community. For more information, visit the NYU Email Direct page of this website.

Page last reviewed: July 12, 2007