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From 14th of September, login via MyED Portal to your Ed-Alumni E4L account will be discontinued. You will have received an email to set up your direct access username and password. If you have not already received this, please contact the IT Support team.
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Service Updates
Changes to our Email for Life Security Regarding Email Clients
Last Updated: 10-May-2022 05:46
Due to recent updates to the security settings of our Email for Life servers, some users may have noticed that their emails via an email client (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.) were not accessible. In many cases, this is due to the age of the email client being used as some older email clients do not support a level of security that is now required.
To allow affected users to be able to access their emails, we will shortly be reverting some of the recent security changes to allow older email clients to continuing accessing emails. Please note this change will only be in place for the next three months. We would urge all of our Email for Life customers to update your operating systems and email clients to the latest versions to guarantee future compatibility.
As a guide, the following email client versions and later should be considered the minimum requirements:
Outlook 2003 on Windows 8.1
Outlook 2016 on OSX 10.11
MacMail on OSX 10.12
Mail on iOS 11
Mail on Android 5
Outlook 2016 on OSX 10.11
MacMail on OSX 10.12
Mail on iOS 11
Mail on Android 5
For the technical among you, as long as your email client supports TLS version 1.2 you should see no disruption to your service via an email client.
Changes to our Email for Life Spam Settings
Last Updated: 19-Oct-2021 02:39
From Monday 1st November, we will be making some changes to our spam settings within our Email for Life service. The default spam policies will be updated so that they no longer automatically discard certain messages that previously would have been. These messages will now appear in your Junk folder.
This change will affect all users using the light, normal, high or strict filtering policy. It will not apply if your webmail filtering policy is already set to custom.
Help with using webmail
- How do I import my emails and contacts from another email account?
Getting started - I can't Migrate my Student Emails! Is there another way to do this?
Troubleshooting - How do I change my email address or username?
Email account user guides - How do I automatically forward my emails to another account?
Email account user guides - How do I set up an Out of Office automated response?
Email account user guides - How do I see how much of my email quota I am using, and where?
Email account user guides - How do I use multiple identities?
Email account user guides - How do I set up email filters?
Email account user guides - How do I use message highlighting?
Email account user guides - How can I archive my emails for safekeeping or transfer?
Email account user guides - I don't think I am receiving any emails.
Troubleshooting - How do I set up/manage my aliases?
Email account user guides - How do I upgrade my account?
About our accounts - How do I renew a FREE subscription?
About our accounts - How do I close my account?
About our accounts - IMAP/POP
Glossary - Password Strength Tips & Tricks
Tips and information - How do I get/use a simple hosting FTP package?
Email account user guides - My email forwarding is not working.
Troubleshooting - Emails people send to me are bouncing back to them!
Troubleshooting - Email Client
Glossary - SMTP
Glossary - SSL/TLS
Glossary - What is Greylisting?
Glossary - Spam, Phishing and Spoofing
Glossary - What is the maximum file size an email attachment can be?
Tips and information - How much do your packages cost?
About our accounts
Frequently asked questions
- How do I import my emails and contacts from another email account?
- I can't Migrate my Student Emails! Is there another way to do this?
- How do I change my email address or username?
- How do I use multiple identities?
- How do I set up email filters?
- How do I use message highlighting?
- How can I archive my emails for safekeeping or transfer?
- I don't think I am receiving any emails.
- How do I set up/manage my aliases?
- How do I upgrade my account?
- How do I renew a FREE subscription?
- How do I close my account?
- IMAP/POP
- Password Strength Tips & Tricks
- My email forwarding is not working.
- I can't send/receive emails from my mail client/phone.
- Emails people send to me are bouncing back to them!
- Email Client
- SMTP
- SSL/TLS
- What is Greylisting?
- Spam, Phishing and Spoofing
- What is the maximum file size an email attachment can be?
- New Graduate FAQ
- I am staying on at Edinburgh, how do I stop my SMS account from forwarding to my alumni account?
- How much do your packages cost?