Email

Accessing Email and Calendar

Information and Training

  • Personalize Account - By default, your email address is set to your UMKC username@umkc.edu. You can choose one additional email address based on your name to add to your mailbox. Sign in with your UMKC username and password and choose Personalize Email.
  • Your mailbox has a total size limit of 25 GB. Once you reach this limit, you will be prohibited from sending and receiving email.
  • Individual messages have a limit of 35 MB. This limit includes the message and any attachments. Messages over 35 MB will not be sent. NOTE: External recipients may have smaller limits that may prevent delivery.
  • Messages in Inbox and Sent folders have a retention policy of 5 years. Messages in the Deleted folder have a retention policy of 30 days, after which they will be automatically deleted. Email that needs to be retained longer than the folder's retention policy should be moved to a subfolder to avoid deletion. More information can be found on the UM System Electronic Mail Use and Management Procedure page.
  • Retiree Email Retention - Request to keep your email upon retirement.
  • For additional training information please visit Microsoft's training website.

Resource and Guest Accounts

Email Security, Spam and Phishing Information

  • Phishing - Junk and spam email can be deleted, automatically filtered or reported to Information Security (IS) as phishing.