Email and Mailing Lists

Every member of the University is assigned an email address "@newcastle.ac.uk".

Why use your University e-mail?

Most people already have an e-mail address before they arrive at the University (@hotmail, or @yahoo for example). Of course you can continue to use such an address, but you must use your email account @newcastle.ac.uk for your University business!

Your University email address is the only one that the University will use for official email because of:

  • Reliability
  • Security
  • Traceability
  • Address look-up (that is, we can all easily find each other's ncl.ac.uk addresses in the University Directory.)
  • Identity: your University email address identifies you as a member of the University.

For these reasons, University Schools are expected to use no other address for email communications.

Email services provided

Outlook Web Access (OWA)

Provided for all students on taught courses.

Outlook Exchange

Provided for members of staff and PhD students. "Full" Outlook Exchange has functions for calendaring, shared folders, diary, meetings, etc.

Unix POP / IMAP email
Please note that the previously available Cyrus service is no longer available to new users.
Mailing Lists

Mailing lists are the best way to organise comunication between groups with a common interest: see the page about the SYMPA service.

Dropbox

We also provide a 'Dropbox' service where users can securely drop off large files for others as an alternative to sending an email attachment.

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