Accounts, email, disk storage, web pages

All first-year law students receive computer accounts in August. When you register, the campus Information Technology department creates several system accounts for you: email, shared disk and web space, computer lab login, student registration system, and a UNIX shell account.

• You can access your campus email from computers in the Law Library computer lab, from almost anywhere in the Law School with a wirelessly connected laptop if you have one, or from off-campus with an Internet Service Provider (ISP). William & Mary uses a standard Internet "POP3" email system, accessible both with an email program like Outlook Express or Thunderbird, and also with an ordinary web browser from http://webmail.wm.edu.
• Students using an off-campus ISP can arrange to forward their campus email address to the off-campus account. See http://mail.wm.edu/ for more information (may require log in; if you don't yet have an account, just assume that forwarding email to a non-William and Mary account is possible). But note that the law school sends emails to students at their W&M accounts; students are therefore responsible for ensuring that any forwarding from those accounts functions properly.
• The campus IT department allocates storage space on the student network to each student for storing email or personal web pages.
• Law students are required to check their William & Mary email accounts at least once a day.