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Using Webmail
For more help with Webmail, please consult Webmail's built in Help (click on the Help icon 
in the Webmail toolbar) and Bowdoin's Knowledge Base available on the IT web site.
Getting Started with Webmail
Basic E-mail Tasks
- Receiving, Reading and Sorting your E-Mail
- Changing how many e-mail messages display in your Inbox
- Replying to a Message
- Creating a New E-Mail Message
- Attaching a File to an E-Mail message
- Spell Checking your E-Mail messages
- Creating a Signature in Webmail
- Searching your E-Mail
- Deleting an E-Mail message
- Working with Folders in Webmail
Other E-mail Tasks and Information
- Using Generic E-Mail Accounts on Exchange
- Creating a Vacation message
- Addresses in Webmail
- Forwarding your Bowdoin E-mail to another E-mail address (see below)
- "Sent Items" in Webmail
- Where Webmail Stores Spam
- Set Up Spam Filter
How to move mail into an off-campus account
E-mail is considered an official method of communication at Bowdoin College because it delivers information conveniently, is cost effective and environmentally friendly. Even though email delivery can never be guaranteed, forwarding messages to an outside email provider reduces the reliability of email delivery.
To support the College’s ability to communicate important information to all of its constituents, a policy has been enacted that expects all members of the campus community to either:
- Maintain and actively monitor the original e-mail account that was first assigned to them by the College or
- "Pop" your Bowdoin email to your outside email provider.
The following are instructions for "popping" email to non-Bowdoin email accounts: