About the automatic email account migration from IU Webmail (Cyrus) to Umail

On October 29, 2009, UITS began migrating undergraduate student accounts from the IU Webmail (Cyrus) system to the Google-sponsored Umail system.

Note: Student workers who deal with sensitive data in their university employment should talk with their supervisors about how this may impact their use of email at IU.

If your account is eligible for migration, you will receive an email from UITS (in Webmail) with details about the migration process. You will also receive notification (in Umail) when the account migration is finished. You will not lose access to your email during the migration process.

At the start of the process, all new mail will start going to your Umail account. To access it directly online, go to:

Mail stored in Webmail will appear in your Umail account about 48 hours after the migration starts. You'll have read-only access to Webmail for five days. Any message in your Webmail account that is infected with a virus, has an executable file attached, or is larger than 6MB cannot be migrated. If a message cannot be migrated, you will receive a notification in Umail with information about the original message.

As a result of the migration to Umail, your account will automatically get more functionality and increased storage space, and be integrated with IU's single sign on-in OneStart and Oncourse CL. Your IU username and email address will not change, but your reply-to address will change to something similar to  username@umail.iu.edu . Plus, you can keep your new account for life.

Note: You can still create an Imail account using the Account Management Service, even after your account has been moved to Umail; see "Getting additional student accounts" in Managing your IU student accounts.

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