WSU Email

WSU provides email (webmail) services accessible via the web to students, faculty, and staff as part of the E-Warrior: Digital Life & Learning Program. Be sure and check your WSU email account regularly as this is the way that WSU communicates with you.

Details

• WSU email is the official WSU mail system. Students are to use it for WSU related business.
• We will never lease your email address to any advertisers and we take a pro-active approach to blocking unsolicited-bulk email messages that could clutter your inbox.

Accessing WSU Email

Students

Microsoft Outlook 365

WSU email is located at sky.winona.edu. Your WSU email username and password is the same one you use for the WSU network, the Portal, and D2L if logging in through the WSU homepage.

• Use email through graduation and beyond
• Protect email from spam & viruses
• Use mailbox aggregation that allows you to aggregate other personal e-mail accounts within Outlook 365
• Get access to your email, contacts, and calendar from anywhere including a broad range of active sync enabled phones (examples: Windows Phone, iPhone, Android)

Student Storage

• 25 GB inbox

Faculty/Staff

WSU email is located at email.winona.edu. Your WSU email username and password is the same one you use for the WSU network, the Portal, and D2L.

There are two major ways to access your email, via the internet and via a local email client.

• Webmail - For accessing your email anywhere with an internet connection on any computer.
• Outlook - Program for accessing email on computer, has advantages over webmail.

Faculty/Staff Storage

• Storage Space - 2 GB
• Warning - 1400 MB
• Prohibit Sending - 1500 MB
• Prohibit Sending and Receiving - 1600 MB
• Attachment size - up to 18 MB

After You Leave

• Graduates/Alumni

Can I keep my email account after I graduate?

WSU students will have access to their Office 365 email and OneDrive For Business storage for one semester after graduation. After that semester the account will roll over to become am Alumni account. The Alumni account will only contain your email so at that time your OneDrive For Business account would go away. Students are advised to setup their own personal Microsoft OneDrive account or some other type of external storage. If your have files in your OneDrive For Business account be sure to move them to your new storage within one semester.

How long can I keep the Alumni account?

Once you have an Alumni account you can keep the account as long as you are using it or respond to any emails stating that it will be closed if you do not take action.

How do I access email after graduation?

• Graduating Students
  • To access your email during the first semester after graduation you will log in as you always have through sky.winona.edu.

• Alumni
  • Go to sky.winona.edu and follow the alumni mail link.
  • Alumni email

• Faculty
  • Faculty members that Retire with Distinction may request to keep account. The mailbox content will be purged (retained for a period of time) and email account will then be made available to faculty member.
  • Exiting employees lose their email account at the end of the day of their separation date.

• Staff:
  • Staff members that Retire with Distinction may request to keep account. The mailbox content will be purged (retained for a period of time) and email account will then be made available to staff member.
  • Exiting employees lose their email account at the end of the day of their separation date.

Questions?

Contact Phone Support at 507-457-5240.