Instructions for Home or Off Campus Set Up of Email

These instructions are NOT for use by faculty and staff on campus or on university owned computers.  All faculty and staff should use the Zimbra Connector for Outlook or setup Mac Mail with IMAP.

For Off Campus access to St. Edward's Email it is highly recommended that you use Zimbra WebMail.

To Setup Zimbra to check external email Accounts:

1.      Go to Preferences
2.      Under Mail select Accounts

3.      Then under accounts click on Add External Account

Searching lets you find messages and contacts. You can search by specific words, by dates, time, URL, size, tag, whether or not a message has been read, whether it has file attachments or attachments of a particular file type.

Zimbra offers two search tools:

Search

You can select to search within messages, your personal contacts, the global address list contacts, or to search all three types.

E-mail Quotas: Mail left on the server may not exceed the following quotas:

Students: 250 MB
Faculty and Staff: 1 GB
Once your quota has been exceeded mail sent to your account will be returned to the sender with a message that the recipient's mail box is over quota. You can check your quota by logging into Zimbra WebMail. The quota status bar is in the upper right hand corner.