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WebMail

members of staff have been migrated to use of Unimail, based on Microsoft Exchange.
undergraduates (and most postgraduates) have been migrated to use of SaintMail.
Students have no access to email via WebMail.
- if you are a new student, please go to the page on SaintMail.
- if you are a postgraduate, because of research data restrictions you may need to use Unimail instead of SaintMail: in this case, please contact the IT Service Desk, explaining the reasons why you need to use Unimail.

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).