What is WebMail?
As a Liberty University student, you have been provided with a school email address which you will need to check weekly for announcements provided by the university or your professors. You can access Webmail when you login to our website by clicking on Webmail, and then entering your username and password.
The WebMail system is composed of two parts: a new e-mail server, called mail.colorado.edu; and a web browser-based e-mail program to send and receive e-mail called WebMail. Students are encouraged to use the new web browser-based e-mail reader called WebMail, though this is not a requirement to take advantage of the server. However, if you want to use the WebMail e-mail client, you must be on the server mail.colorado.edu.
WebMail is an e-mail tool that lets you to use a web browser to send and receive messages and attachments, and manage your mail online. It is only available on the new e-mail system.You can use WebMail on any computer with a contemporary web browser (except AOL’s web browser). WebMail uses IMAP and is based on a service called SquirrelMail. It protects your NetID password by using either Cornell’s Kerberos/SideCar software, or CUWebLogin, which relies on SSL, the same technology that protects credit-card and other sensitive information on the web.
Think about your normal postal system for a minute. Letters arrive at your local post office. Then the postman/lady picks them up and delivers them to your house. Well, email works much the same. Emails get delivered to your ISP’s ‘mail server’ (ie ‘Post Office’) where its just sits until you do something about it. An email program, eg Outlook Express is just like the postman/lady. It delivers the mail from the mail server to your PC. Webmail is the ability to go straight to the mail server and check/read/delete/compose your email there. No postman/lady required. All you need is a web browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox etc.
