The New Exponent

By Gray Wattenbarger
Staff Writer

To some, using e-mail may be time consuming, but using more than one e-mail account may not be worth your time. Since TWC has given every student their very own e-mail account, many students are not checking it as often as they should. A new policy implemented by Wesleyan is that any and all college related correspondence through e-mail is to utilize the my.twcnet.edu e-mail addresses.

What if there was an easier way to check all of your e-mails in one mailbox? Luckily, there is! Microsoft has a great way of helping its consumers merge multiple e-mail mailboxes into one account. For many Wesleyan students, they’ve already set up their accounts to forward their e-mail to their personal account.

Forwarding your my.twcnet.edu mail is quite a simple task to complete! The Outlook Live e-mail client that TWC uses has a very simple step-by-step process to help you set up forwarding:

1. Log into you’re my.twcnet.edu account by going to http://www.twcnet.edu and clicking on the ‘Student E-mail’ link

2. In the upper right-hand corner, click the link that says ‘Options’

3. On the left-hand side, click ‘Organize E-mail’

4. Once the page loads, there will be a tab that says ‘Inbox Rules’ that will open up. Click the ‘New’ icon.

5. A new window will open up asking you how to configure the Inbox Rules. You can select the options you think are right for you, but it is recommended that in the ‘*When the message arrives, and:’ option, you select ‘Apply to All Messages’ from the drop-down menu.

6. In the ‘*Do The Following:’ drop-down list, select ‘Forward the Message To:’

7. A new window will open up asking you where to send the e-mail. The new window that opens is the TWC student e-mail address book. At the bottom of the window, in the blank field under ‘Message Recipient,’ type in your personal e-mail address and click ‘Ok.’

8. The window will close, and you will be taken back to the previous New Inbox Rule window. Once all the information is correct, click the ‘Save’ button.

Your student e-mail is now being forwarded to your personal e-mail address! That means there is one less inbox to check and more free time to do homework and reading. If there are any questions regarding your student e-mail account, don’t hesitate to contact Campus Information Technology, or CIT.