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.

Mail left in the INBOX, Sent folder, and Trash folder is automatically expired and deleted from the mail.usi.edu server on a set schedule.

mail.usi.edu server email expiration schedule:

• All email messages that are left in a @mail.usi.edu INBOX for longer than 180 days are automatically removed from the myUSI mail server.
• All email messages that are left in a @mail.usi.edu Sent folder for longer than 14 days are automatically removed from the myUSI mail server.
• All email messages that are left in a @mail.usi.edu Trash folder for longer than 3 days are automatically removed from the myUSI mail server.

Mail that is NOT in the INBOX, Sent folder, or Trash folder is not automatically removed.

If you would like to keep email messages longer than than the time periods listed above, you MUST create folders and place the email messages that you would like to save into folders other than the INBOX, Sent folder, or Trash folder.

Mail that is not moved to another folder WILL BE DELETED and purged from the myUSI mail server.

For More Information on Creating Mail Folders and Moving Messages See:

For the myUSI Mail client:
How to make new folders using the myUSI Mail email client.

How to move messages to a folder using the myUSI Mail client.

For the Lite Mail client:
How to make new folders using the Lite Mail email client.

How to move messages to a folder using the Lite Mail client.

If you have any questions or concerns, please direct them to myusi@usi.edu.

The myUSI Support Team

First, login to the myUSI Mail client using your myUSI username and password.

Once logged in, you’ll be viewing your INBOX (by default).

Using your mouse, highlight the message(s) that you want to move.

Then click on the Move button at the top of the message list.

Then pick the folder that you would like to move your selected message(s) to in the Select Folder dialog and click the Move To Folder button.

The messages that you selected will disappear from their original folder and will now appear in the folder that you moved them to. You can confirm this by clicking on the folder that you selected in the previous step in the left hand folder list (i.e. Saved Mail).

That’s all there is to moving mail to a new folder.

See Also:
How to make new folders using the myUSI Mail email client.

First, login to the myUSI Mail client using your myUSI username and password.

Once logged in, you’ll be viewing your INBOX (by default).

In the Folder menu to the left, right click on your email address (yourname@mail.usi.edu) or any folder that you want to make a sub-folder in. On the resulting pop up menu, click New Folder.

Type the name (i.e. Saved Mail) of the new folder in the New folder name: field in the Create Folder dialog box. Then click the Create button.

The new folder (i.e. Saved Mail) will now appear in the folder list.

That’s all there is to creating new folders using the myUSI Mail email client.

See Also:
How to move messages to a folder using the myUSI Mail client.