If you are using Binghamton University resources for email, you are expected to abide by the Binghamton University Computer and Network Usage Policy.

New Email System - Mirapoint

The campus implemented a new email system for the start of the school day on Monday, September 24th. More information about the change, answers to frequently-asked questions, and the detailed schedule for conversion can be found at http://its.binghamton.edu/email/mirapoint.

Email Accounts

All students at Binghamton University are assigned an email account which they keep for the duration of their academic career. An email account gives you an email address and an electronic mailbox on the Binghamton University mail server. Students can continue to use their electronic mailbox for up to 6 months after they graduate. Students can get their userID and initial POD password (used for email and many other services) by accessing BUSI.

Faculty and staff email accounts are also available on BUSI.

Listservs

Listservs are a convenient way to send messages to groups of people with a common interest. Many groups on campus use listservs to communicate with their members. There are also listservs for many academic departments and for various majors and minors. (more...)

The Listserv Request Form should be used to request creation of a list.

Check your Binghamton University email regularly

University offices and individual members of the University community rely on Binghamton University email addresses as their primary means of communication both to individuals (via one-on-one email messages) and to the community at large (via listservs and other multi-recipient transmissions). Although some mail, both "official" and unofficial, is sent both by email and in hard copy, the University sends all official mail to faculty, staff, and students to their individual email addresses in the "binghamton.edu" domain, and sometimes only to those addresses. By "official" we mean such things as grades, offers (and denials) of employment, library overdue and book-arrival notices, bills for tuition and fees, notices of probation or suspension or termination, and letters of commendation or reprimand -- among many other time-sensitive and important communications we could mention. For that reason, all faculty, staff, and students should check their Binghamton email frequently and are expected to do so at least weekly during the academic year while classes are in session. Individual faculty and others may require even more frequent checks by, for example, students enrolled in a particular course or employees working in a particular office. Users should recognize that their email can contain important and highly confidential information that they may wish to ensure remains secure and confidential by not giving others access to it.

Email Filtering

Viruses, worms and spam (unsolicited commercial email) have become increasingly prevalent in electronic mail sent to the University community, some of it capable of causing damage to our infrastructure and resulting in costly downtime. In order to protect the integrity of campus computing, Computing Services filters incoming email.