While email forwarding is currently allowed, it is not a recommended practice. Information Technology will not support users with issues surrounding automatic forwarding of email.
For more email best practices, refer to the document Email etiquette.
Outlook
Login to your uOttawa email
If your @uOttawa.ca email account is set up, open Outlook on the web or download the Outlook application and log in using your uoAccess credentials .
Login to Outlook
Automatic forwarding
Advantages
Outlook provides a storage memory of 50 GB.
Office 365 Thresholds
| 50 Gig |
Quota for email per account for alumni, retirees and a few employee groups |
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100 Gig |
Quota for email per account for active students and some employees groups |
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30 days |
Maximum retention period for backup of items deleted from the Deleted Items folder |
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25 MB |
Maximum attachment size |
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500 recipients/email |
Maximum number of people you can email at a time |
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10,000 recipients/day |
Daily maximum number of people you can email per account |
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300 emails/30 minutes |
Sending limit set by the University’s Spam filter for each account |
Note: distribution lists started in the organization’s address book count as one recipient; those in personal contacts folders are counted individually, Those with a business need email many recipients (e.g. newsletters), should use third-party providers.
