This page explains the university-supported ways faculty and staff can connect to their email accounts, along with common alternatives if none of those meets your needs.

This article applies to: Email for Faculty and Staff

Apr 19, 2021 Weill Cornell Medicine is committed to excellence in patient care, scientific discovery and the education of future physicians in New York City and around the world. Since 1898, our doctors and scientists have been engaged in world-class clinical care and cutting-edge research that connect patients to the latest treatment innovations. Aug 12, 2019 Website: Office 365 Productivity Bundle; Cornell faculty and staff have access to a suite of Office 365 online productivity tools for cloud-based access and collaboration. These services include: SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Office Online, Yammer, and Delve. Access to these services is available for as long as an individual remains. Outlook on the Web can be used by anyone whose account is on Microsoft's Office 365 service. You can choose to use Outlook on the Web exclusively. Or you can use it when you're away from your own computer, and use another email application, such as Outlook or Apple Mail, the rest of the time.

Please note that your college, unit, or department may require that you use a particular method to access your Cornell email and calendar. Your IT or computer support staff can advise you about any requirements or recommendations.

Manage Your Email and Calendar on the Web

Outlook on the web (formerly called OWA) is a service for managing your email and calendar on the web. It can be used with most current web browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer. New york city 2020 kitsempty spaces the blog.

You can choose to use Outlook on the web exclusively. Or you can use it when you're away from your own computer, and use another email and calendar application, such as Outlook, the rest of the time.

Get Started with Outlook on the web

Manage Your Email and Calendar with Outlook for Windows or Mac

Outlook is an email/calendar app that is installed on your computer. It is designed specifically for Cornell's Office 365 email and calendar system.

• Outlook 2016 for Windows comes with Microsoft Office 2016.
• Outlook 2016 for Mac comes with Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac.

Outlook offers powerful ways to integrate your email, calendar, task lists, and address book, and many options for organizing your email. It also provides flexible, secure ways to enable other people to manage your email and calendar.

Outlook looks very much like Outlook on the web, a service for viewing your email on the web. That's beneficial because, for the most part, you only need to learn one of these applications to efficiently use any of them.

Install Outlook for Windows or Mac: Under the Microsoft Campus Agreement, Cornell University staff, faculty, and affiliates can download Microsoft Office to install onto their institution-owned computers at no charge. Untold talesdiscussion comments.

Weill Cornell Medicine has its own independent arrangement with Microsoft, and is not covered under the Microsoft Campus Agreement.
Weill Cornell staff should check with their local IT providers for more information.

Manage Your Email and Calendar with Apple's Mail and Calendar Apps

Apple OS X comes with Mail and Calendar apps. While not as fully integrated as Outlook, these apps provide comparable features.

Get Started with Apple's Mail App

Get Started with Apple's Calendar App

Manage Your Email and Calendar on Your Mobile Phone

You can use your Android, iOS, or other smartphone to manage your Cornell email and calendar.

Other Ways to Manage Your Cornell Email

If none of the university-supported ways to read your Cornell email meets your needs, you can choose one of the two options below.

• Use any email application that supports the IMAP email protocol. Please understand that you're responsible for installing and configuring the email application on your own, and doing your own troubleshooting if problems arise. Here are the settings you'll need to find in your client's configuration. (Microsoft's E-mail Setup Wizard for Office 365 may be helpful.)

• Your username is typically your netid or netid@cornell.edu
  (for example, pqs665 or pqs665@cornell.edu).
• Set the IMAP server to
  outlook.office365.com
  use port 993
  and set the encryption to SSL/TLS.
• Set the SMTP server to
  smtp.office365.com
  use port 587
  and set the encryption to STARTTLS.
• To connect to Cornell's Electronic Directory, locate the Directory Server area of your client's configuration options.
  • Set hostname to directory.cornell.edu
  • Set base DN to
    o=Cornell University,c=US
    Please note: The Base DN entry begins with a lowercase letter 'o' not a zero.
    There is no space before or after the comma.
  • Set port to 389.

• Forward your Cornell email to a non-Cornell email account. Be sure to note the university's guidelines about situations in which you should not forward your Cornell email.

What is the maximum file size I can email as an attachment?

The maximum file size is 25 MB if you are sending the attachment via Outlook or Webmail. To send larger attachments up to 35GB, use the File Transfer Service.

What is the 'Clutter' folder in my email account?

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Clutter is a feature designed to move low priority messages out of your inbox and into their own folder, saving you time when you scan for important messages. Once you activate it, Clutter looks at what you've done in the past to determine the messages you’re most likely to ignore. It then moves those messages to a folder in your inbox called Clutter items.

The Clutter items folder will be available regardless of how you access your account. Clutter and junk email are both filtered out before they reach your inbox. Junk email is evaluated first, and filtered based on the characteristics of the messages themselves, for example the subject or the server it was sent from. Next, Clutter analyzes the remaining messages destined for your inbox, and filters out the types of messages that you usually ignore or don't respond to, based on your past behavior.

Visit the Microsoft website for more information about using Clutter, including how to turn it on and off.

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How do I search for NYP contacts in Outlook/Webmail?

NYP did not migrate to Office 365 for its email system, so it is no longer possible to search for NYP contacts using the Global Address Book in Outlook or Webmail.

If you are a WCMC employee and you need to search for an NYP contact, you have two options:

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1. Search for the NYP contact with the WCMC Directory.
2. Connect to the LDAP Directory. LDAP is an additional directory that will allow your mail client (Outlook for Mac, Outlook for Windows, Apple Mail) to search for NYP contacts. View the 'Guide' section of the O365 Email & Calendar page for more information on how to connect to LDAP.