Indiana State University is switching to a new email provider. After several years of using MyMail as their school email provider, the students of Indiana State University will be forced to permanently discard their MyMail accounts in favor of the university’s new email provider: Outlook Web Access.
Better email features
Yancy Phillips, who is the director of user services for the Office of Information of the state university, stated an explanation for the school’s decision to switch to a new email provider. According to him, the university only chose a new email system that features a variety of popular options that are commonly used for student email. The purpose of the switch, therefore, is to provide the students with a more convenient and a more advanced email provider. The new email provider, after all, is very similar to the other webmail systems that the students personally subscribe to.
Inconvenient email switch
The students, however, are not happy about it. History graduate student Bobbie Zapor, for instance, believes that the email switch is a bad idea. Managing all the emails that are currently saved in their respective inboxes takes a lot of time and effort to finish. In addition to this, Zapor is also worried that she might not be able to retrieve all her old emails once the new email system is used. “It’s very inconvenient for a student,” she added.
Manual file transfer
Zapor is right to worry about her old emails. The emails and files that are stored in the students’ MyMail accounts, after all, will not automatically transfer to their new Outlook Web Access upon the email switch. The students of ISU, therefore, are asking for more time to properly manage their emails.
No words yet on whether the university will continue or postpone the scheduled email switch on January 5th.