Email Clients

software downloads

Thunderbird, Outlook, and Apple Mail are the fully supported email applications at Boston College. You may also check your email over the web at http://mail.bc.edu.

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Thunderbird
Thunderbird

The Thunderbird email client includes built-in junk mail filtering and many tools to help you manage your inbox.

Download Thunderbird for Windows|   Download Thunderbird for Mac OS X|   Download Thunderbird for Linux|   Get Help Using Thunderbird
Outlook 2007 for Windows
Office 2007

A full-featured email and calendaring solution that is a standard in corporate environments and educational institutions. Outlook 2007 is part of the Microsoft Office 2007 software suite. This download requires that you login using your BC username and password. All BC students, faculty, and staff may install one copy of Office for personal use.

Download Office 2007 for Windows|     Get Help Using Outlook
Outlook 2003 for Windows
Office 2003

A full-featured email and calendaring solution that is a standard in corporate environments and educational institutions. Outlook 2003 is part of the Microsoft Office 2003 software suite. This download requires that you login using your BC username and password. All BC students, faculty, and staff may install one copy of Office for personal use.

Download Office 2003 for Windows|     Get Help Using Outlook
Entourage 2008 for Mac OS X
Office 2008

A full-featured email and calendaring solution that is a standard in corporate environments and educational institutions. Entourage 2008 is part of the Microsoft Office 2008 software suite. Entourage users should also install Update 1221 and Entourage Web Services available below. This download requires that you login using your BC username and password.

NOTE:  Visual Basic (VB) is not supported in this version of Office. This means that some functions that were available in earlier versions of Office for Mac are not available in Office 2008, such as the analysis tools in Excel.

All BC students, faculty, and staff may install one copy of Office for personal use.

Download Office 2008 for Mac|   Learn How to Install Office 2008
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac OS X Update 1221
Office 2008

This update is required if you are using Entourage Web Services.

Download the Office 2008 Update for Mac
Entourage Web Services
Office 2008

Entourage Web Services provides improved email and calendar functionality for faculty and staff Mac users. Before installing Entourage Web Services, you need to make sure you have Office 2008 installed and have installed the Office 2008 Update 1221.

Download Office 2008 for Mac

Webmail@bc
Webmail Send and receive email from any computer anywhere in the world using Webmail@bc.