The Saint Mary's e-mail system is an official form of comunication for the College.

Students must use their Saint Mary's e-mail address for all e-mail correspondence with Saint Mary's faculty and staff.

If a student uses another account (AOL, Hotmail, etc.) to e-mail a faculty or staff member, the faculty or staff member will not respond. For this reason, we encourage students to have all their third-party e-mail forwarded to their Saint Mary's e-mail account, and to use the latter in all correspondence. (Access to third-party e-mail accounts is not blocked at Saint Mary's College, and students may continue to use those accounts for non-academic purposes if they wish.)

Saint Mary's e-mail accounts are typically deactivated six months after a student's departure from the College. A notice will be sent to your Saint Mary's e-mail account prior to its deactivation to give you the exact date that the account will no longer function.

Please note: These instructions may vary slightly based on the UI theme you have selected to customize Zimbra.

1. Log into Zimbra webmail (http://webmail.saintmarys.edu).
2. Click on the Options tab.
3. Click on the Mail tab.
4. In the "Address to forward mail to:" field enter the e-mail address you want to forward your messages to.
5. Click Save.
6. Log out of Zimbra.

At this point, send your Saint Mary's e-mail account a test e-mail message and make sure that it goes through to the other account. (You can send it from your own e-mail account, or have a friend send you a message.)

After you have confirmed the forwarding is set up correctly and you no longer need to use your Saint Mary's e-mail account and Zimbra webmail:

1. Log into Zimbra webmail (http://webmail.saintmarys.edu).
2. Click on the Options tab.
3. Click on the Mail tab.
4. Check the box next to "Don't keep a local copy of messages:" - this way your account will not go over quota from your new messages. No new messages will appear in Zimbra.
5. Click Save.
6. Log out of Zimbra.