Forwarding the mail that is delivered to an @mail.usi.edu address is relatively simple. Just follow these steps:

1. Login to myUSI or sign in through the myUSI Start page
2. Open the myUSI Mail application by clicking on the myUSI Mail icon.
3. Click on the Options button.
4. Expand the Mail option by clicking the triangle to the right.
5. Under Mail, expand the Local account option by clicking the triangle to the right.
6. Under Local Account, click the Forwarding option.
7. Clear the address in the Forward To: field
8. Check Enable automatic forwarding.
9. Type the email address that you would like to forward your mail to in the Foward to: field.
10. Click the Save Preferences button
11. Wait about 15 minutes and then send a message to your @mail.usi.edu address and see if it shows up at the address where your mail is forwarded.

NOTE:

Be sure to TEST your forwarded email account.

We have had many users forward their mail to non-existent or broken accounts.

If you don’t test your configuration, there is a good chance that you will lose communications from the university as we send only to your @mail.usi.edu account.

To test your configuration, send a test message to your @mail.usi.edu address and see if it shows up at the address that you set up for Forwarding.

If it doesn’t show up, there is a problem with the address that you entered in the  Forward to: and it needs to be corrected before you will receive any mail originally sent to your original @mail.usi.edu address.

Your forwarded address could be mistyped or the email account settings on the forwarded address (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc) need to be changed in order to accept email from your forwarding address.

If you choose to change the default configuration, it is your responsibility to make sure that it works and won’t potentially lose communications.

If you aren’t sure how to make this work, you probably don’t want to change the default and, instead, check your myUSI email account on a regular basis through the interfaces provided by the university.

MyUSI is USI’s portal which allows access to multiple products with one easy login.

Blackboard is classified as course management software or courseware.

Both share a few similar features such as chat, announcements, calendar.

The course resources found under myUSI are basic tools delivered with the product, but myUSI is not courseware. If you have already created a Blackboard site for your course, you may choose to add a link for this site under the Course Homepage in myUSI.

If you have not already designed anything for your course under Blackboard and need only basic chat, message board, e-mail, and a way to add links for your course, you may choose to use the Course Resources under myUSI.

No, we currently don’t support POP or IMAP access to the myUSI email server.

The POP and IMAP protocols are insecure because they generally send your username and password in clear text over the Internet.

Because myUSI contains much more confidential information than just your email (i.e. Your transcript, home address, marital status, for example), USI would like you to always use the secure web login provided through the myUSI website. This means that you can only get your email through the myUSI web interface and can not use external clients such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora, Mac’s Mail.app, and others.

This process also allows us to post announcements in the portal so we do not have to “spam” everyone’s email inbox with important University communications.

There is a chance, as our technologies and services change and evolve, that remote access to myUSI mail using other email clients may be possible. However, as of right now, there is no expected change.

MyUSI is a campus web portal that lets you access many of the university’s school services online. Faculty and students can read and create emails from their USI email account. It has email and chat features specific to each USI class. You can access a calendar of USI events, and receive announcements specific to your role within the university. There are also links for students to get to the online Blackboard system.