WebMail
- if you are a new student, please go to the page on SaintMail.
- if you are a postgraduate and need to use WebMail instead of SaintMail, please contact the Helpdesk, explaining the reasons why you need to use WebMail.
What is WebMail?
WebMail is an email application that lets you read, send and organise your email via a web browser, which means you can be almost anywhere and still have access to your messages. WebMail uses IMAP to manipulate email. IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol, which is a method of accessing electronic mail or bulletin board messages that are kept on a (possibly shared) mail server. In other words, it permits a "client" email program to access remote message stores as if they were local. For example, email stored on an IMAP server can be manipulated from a desktop computer at home, a workstation at the office, and a notebook computer while travelling, without the need to transfer messages or files back and forth between these computers.
WebMail is a fully-featured email application: address books can be setup and you can search the University's LDAP database for the addresses of other St Andrews users. There are signature, identities and message templates (drafts) facilities in WebMail. Certain messages sent in HTML can be displayed in WebMail and you can certainly send and receive attachments (depending on size).
- Any member of staff at the University of St Andrews with a valid St Andrews username and password can use WebMail.
- Undergraduates (and most postgraduates) have been migrated to use of SaintMail.
Undergraduates have no access to email via WebMail from 28 April 2010.
How to start WebMail
The URL for opening a WebMail session is: https://webmail.st-andrews.ac.uk/ (note the s at the end of https)
Using WebMail
Further information about WebMail
- Using WebMail more efficiently
- Some possible WebMail problems and their solutions
- More about WebMail
Mobile WebMail
Click here for more information about Mobile WebMail, a "light" version for use on mobile devices or if you have a slow Internet connection.