E-mail Options for Students

Specify Where Your E-mail Gets Delivered

E-mail sent to your Ball State e-mail address can be forwarded to any e-mail account you specify.  The e-mail account that you forward your Ball State e-mail to is called your Destination Mailbox.

Forward Your Ball State E-mail Learn how specify where e-mail that is sent to your Ball State e-mail address gets delivered. You can forwarded the mail to an Exchange Labs account, a GoogleApps account, or any other e-mail account that you choose.

      
Exchange Labs and GoogleApps Accounts

Students can create optional lifetime Ball State affiliated e-mail accounts with Exchange Labs or GoogleApps. These accounts are optional, but if you want, you can create an account with each of these services. You can even choose one of these accounts to have all your official e-mail sent to.

	Exchange Labs Exchange Labs accounts provide an e-mail option for students. Exchange Labs are hosted by Microsoft and provide larger mailbox sizes and access to other applications.
	GoogleApps GoogleApps accounts are another of the e-mail options for students. These accounts are optional for students, but provide large mailboxes and access to other Google applications. GoogleApps accounts are hosted by Google and are similar to a gmail account.

Ball State Exchange (Outlook) E-mail Accounts

If you have a Ball State Exchange email account, you can access it at www.bsu.edu/webmail. Ball State Exchange accounts  are sometimes called Outlook accounts.  The username and password you use for your Exchange e-mail account is also used for online resources at Ball State, such as Blackboard and inQsit.

Outlook Web Access (OWA) If you have a Ball State Exchange account, you can access it from the Internet using Outlook Web Access (OWA). OWA is sometimes called webmail.