Spring Break
CSU Web mail changes to Gmail [VIDEO]
Glen Pfieffer and Ryan Gibbons
Issue date: 3/11/09 Section: News
CSU's Webmail program feels like Hotmail from five years ago. It's clunky, visually unappealing, has counter-intuitive controls and spell-check seems to be its best feature.
If the rest of the CSU student body is anything like us, then they opted to have their Webmail messages forwarded to another account during their freshman year. However, in a refreshing display of change instigated by students, the University Technology Fee Advisory Board, which is made up of students, decided to switch mail services to one operated by Google. w00t
Google Apps for CSU is a comprehensive suite of programs including Gmail (Google's e-mail), Google Docs, Google talk, Google Calendar and more -- all of which surpass Web mail's functionality by about a decade.
As far as e-mail goes, having a Google CSU student account will be just like having a second Gmail accountÂÂ -- if you already have one that is. Students will have a new address -- first.lastname@rams.colostate.edu -- which thankfully eliminates the use of the server name from the address, which was "simla" or "holly" for most of us.Â
So when can you make the switch, you ask? Why, right now!
Just go to http://mail.rams.colostate.edu. There is an easy setup process to go through and then voila, you're good to go.
And if you don't want to switch? Tough beans, you don't have a choice. Over Winter break this year, all students that haven't yet switched will have their addresses mass-migrated to the new service. At that point, all e-mail sent to your old address will no longer be forwarded to your new account -- so make sure to change that Facebook contact info, and e-mail your grandma your new address if she's high speed enough to be an e-mailin' whiz.
If the rest of the CSU student body is anything like us, then they opted to have their Webmail messages forwarded to another account during their freshman year. However, in a refreshing display of change instigated by students, the University Technology Fee Advisory Board, which is made up of students, decided to switch mail services to one operated by Google. w00t
Google Apps for CSU is a comprehensive suite of programs including Gmail (Google's e-mail), Google Docs, Google talk, Google Calendar and more -- all of which surpass Web mail's functionality by about a decade.
As far as e-mail goes, having a Google CSU student account will be just like having a second Gmail accountÂÂ -- if you already have one that is. Students will have a new address -- first.lastname@rams.colostate.edu -- which thankfully eliminates the use of the server name from the address, which was "simla" or "holly" for most of us.Â
So when can you make the switch, you ask? Why, right now!
Just go to http://mail.rams.colostate.edu. There is an easy setup process to go through and then voila, you're good to go.
And if you don't want to switch? Tough beans, you don't have a choice. Over Winter break this year, all students that haven't yet switched will have their addresses mass-migrated to the new service. At that point, all e-mail sent to your old address will no longer be forwarded to your new account -- so make sure to change that Facebook contact info, and e-mail your grandma your new address if she's high speed enough to be an e-mailin' whiz.
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