- Email addressing at Boston College
- Can I use another email account? Can I forward my BC mail to another email account?
- Student Mail Storage Quota Information
- What can I do about SPAM?
- Can I keep my account active past graduation?
- What Email Client(s) can I use?
- Can I set an Auto-Reply Message?
- How do I prevent email viruses?
- How do I report an abusive email?
Can I use another email account instead of my BC account?
An electronic mail account is mandatory for all BC Law students. Faculty members and administrative offices, including Career Services, rely on the use of your BC email account. If you choose to use a personal mail account, please be sure to forward your BC account using the service available within Agora.
Does my BC email account have a mail storage quota?
- Faculty and Staff have an unlimited amount of storage space.
- Student accounts are limited to 200 megabytes (MB) of storage space. The amount of email you can have in your account depends upon the size of each email.
What happens when my student account reaches the maximum storage limit?
Student accounts come with 200 megabytes (MB) of storage space. You receive a size notification email when your account reaches 80% of the storage limit. When your mailbox reaches the storage limit of 200 MB, you stop receiving new email and incoming messages that put you over the limit are returned to the sender. This means that you cannot send or receive email until your account drops below the storage limit. The email server attempts to deliver new email every 4 hours for the next 24 hours. If you do not clean your mailbox to put you under 200 MB after 24 hours, your new email is deleted. After these messages are deleted, they cannot be recovered.
How do I know I am back under the maximum storage limit?
Once you delete enough email to go under your full storage limit, you begin receiving new email again. However, if you have not deleted enough messages, your incoming email is stopped again and you receive another warning email. Once you delete enough email to go under 80% of your storage capacity, the warning message in WebMail (https://mail.bc.edu) disappears.
NOTE: Moving your messages to the trash folder and deleting them permanently are usually two different processes!
How long will this account be active? What happens to this account when I leave BC Law?
Student email accounts will remain active for your entire time at BC Law. By special arrangement, BC Law May graduates will have access to email for one year after their graduation year.
Learn how to keep your BC email address after graduation.
Faculty/Staff accounts automatically expire as soon as their employee status is processed by Human Resources.
What email client can I use to access my BC mail account? How do I configure my email client?
Any IMAP mail client can be used to access your email account .All students have accounts automatically created on the mail server: <mail.bc.edu> . The mail server for outgoing messages (SMTP) isalso <mail.bc.edu>. When configuring a mail client to access your BC mail from home you may need to use your Internet Service Provider's SMTP server instead of mail.bc.edu. Instructions on how to configure a variety of IMAP e-mail clients.
Microsoft Outlook is currently the email client used at BC Law by Faculty/Staff. Configuring Outlook.
Use WebMail from any computer with an Internet Connection and a web browser (Netscape/Internet Explorer, etc.) No Configuration Necessary!
Boston College e-mail accounts are accessible using theBC webmail client. http://mail.bc.edu.
How to use BC's WebMail client.
How do I set an auto-reply message?
What can I do about stopping SPAM?
BC's Spam Control Service Creating your own spam control filter for even greater control of how unwanted messages are filtered.