Email Information

Email Addresses

As an engineering student, you have several choices for the email address you use as well as where your mail is delivered. If you are a registered Purdue student with an ECN computer account, you can recieve mail at any of the following addresses:

• username@purdue.edu: your default career account address that will be active as long as you are affiliated with Purdue.
• username@ecn.purdue.edu: this address will also work as long as you are an active engineering student at Purdue.
• YourChoice@purdue.edu: ITaP allows you to create your own email alias. This is configured on the directory site.

Email Storage

ITaP & ECN offer a couple of different options for where your mail is delivered & how you access your mail. All mail sent to any of your Purdue email addresses will be sent to the same destination.

• Office365 is a cloud-based email service available for all students, faculty, and staff.
• ECN Mail is a standard IMAP mail service available to engineering students, faculty, and staff.
• Microsoft Exchange is available for faculty, staff, and funded grad students.
• Forward will forward your mail to an external address.

We strongly recommend not setting your Purdue email to forward to another address. Outside mail providers tend to mark legitimate mail forwarded like this as spam or fail to deliver it all together.

See the ECN and ITaP sites for more information.

ECN Mail Information

Where are my messages?

The ECN mail servers use dmail and MBX formatted mail files, which allows us to support users with much larger mail files & folders. With this system, your mail is stored in a folder called INBOX in your home directory.

Is there a quota on the ECN mail system?

There is no hard quota on email. ECN monitors overall usage to ensure adequate capacity is available for everyone. If a problem arises with any single user, the department will work with that person to rectify the situation. In general, it is best to keep the INBOX, Trash, Deleted Messages, and Sent files under 1GB and your total message count under 2000. These files tend to be accessed very frequently and put a large I/O load on the servers when they are accessed. Your other folders can be larger.

See the ECN Knowledge Base Email articles for more information.