Why change email systems?
The old Mirapoint system is, well, old. By today’s standards it’s slow, restrictive, and more than a little cumbersome. It’s also small, as anyone who has run out of space and been forced to go through the painful process of clearing out old emails can attest. The new Gmail system gives us each more than 7 Gigabytes of email storage; that’s about 35 times what the old system offered. TU Gmail also comes with an extensive set of handy tools and features, such as Google’s powerful searching capabilities. Where will all my all my old emails go? Your old emails will follow you to the new system and show up under the “All Mail” section of your TU Gmail account. There are, however, a couple of exceptions related to attachments. Attachments larger than 20 Megabytes and executable attachments (i.e. programs) will not be moved; those files will remain in the old Mirapoint system where you’ll be able to access them for 30 days after the transition. Any folders you created in the Mirapoint system
