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ANU Email Accounts
University email addresses are created automatically for all ANU staff, students and affiliates when they join the University. University email accounts are of the form u1234567@anu.edu.au, and are the official email contact address for staff and students. While the University may use other methods of correspondence, it will only use your ANU email address to send you correspondence by email. Please check your ANU email address regularly, or forward your ANU email to an address that you do check regularly.
See also Student Email in the Information Commons and Staff Email Accounts
Web-based Email
A web-based email service is available.
For more information see https://anumail.anu.edu.au
You will need to use your UniID and password to connect.
You can also re-direct your ANU mail to other web-based systems like Hotmail or Yahoo (from OLAMS – see below). You will, however, consume part of your web quota when you access your email in this way from an Information Commons computer.
Forwarding Your Email
In order to forward your ANU email to another email address you will need to change your mail drop. You specify your mail drop through OLAMS (Online Account Management System). Configuration details are below.
ANUMAIL - the default mail drop
This is what OLAMS looks like when configured for an ANUMAIL mail drop:
If you need to change your mail drop, select the Change Maildrop option in the User Account Management Section at the bottom of this OLAMS page. You will then see the Change Maildrop page. If you want your email forwarded to a web-based email provider, such as Hotmail, this is where you enter those details.
If you want to change your settings back, your default mail drop address is your UniID followed by @anumail.anu.edu.au (e.g., u1234567@anumail.anu.edu.au).
For more information see http://olams.anu.edu.au
Other Mail Drops
As each area's email servers will be different, your LITSS will be able to give you the exact server name and address to specify in your mail drop configuration on OLAMS.
Email Quarantine System
The University filters a great deal of spam sent to ANU email addresses.
Spam filtering is done by looking at the content of the message and scoring it against a set of rules. Each rule is worth a number of points and at the end of scanning the message, the system simply adds up the number of points that a particular message has scored. The more points a message scores the more likely it is going to be spam. Both the content of the message and the formatting and other characteristics are used when classifying.
When is it spam?
Messages with a higher probability of being spam are placed in a quarantine area and not delivered to your Inbox.
The ANU Quarantine service allows users to see which messages have been filtered, and allows the user to whitelist or blacklist particular e-mail addresses. If you wish to monitor which emails have been quarantined, a daily digest of of all the quarantined mails can be sent to you.
For more informationsee http://quarantine.anu.edu.au