If you are using Binghamton University resources for email, you are expected to abide
by the Binghamton University Computer and Network Usage Policy.
Email System - Google Apps
Binghamton University has partnered with Google to provide our students, faculty, and staff with access to the powerful communication and collaboration services available under Google Apps Education Edition. Our previous email system was replaced with our implementation of Google Apps Education Edition during the Spring 2010 semester.
The specific applications that are available include Gmail (Bmail), Google Calendar and Google Chat, as well as Google Drive and Google Sites. As the University's provider of these applications, Google guarantees an uptime of 99.9 percent, in a safe and secure environment. Google Apps will provide larger mailboxes and allow for larger attachments to be sent and received, the power of Google Search in email, access to a shared calendaring system, expanded document storage, a website creation tool, an integrated chat facility and support of mobile devices.
For more information, visit our Google Apps at Binghamton University page.
Email Accounts
All students, faculty, and staff are issued a Computer Account and a binghamton.edu email account commonly called a Bmail account.
Before logging into Bmail/Google Apps for the first time, you must create a secure password. To do this, go to https://password.binghamton.edu. Additional instructions for password resets are available here. To set your password, staff and faculty will need username and a One-Time-Password to allow the creation of the Computer Account and Google password. Your Bmail address is your username@binghamton.edu.
Alumni Lifetime Email Account Password Reset Process
To reset an Alumni account that was created through the Alumni Office, please go to bconnectalumni.binghamton.edu/s/resources/templates/blank.aspx?gid=2&pgid=985.
For step-by-step instruction, go here.
Install G-Suite Sync for Outlook
For those who prefer to use Microsoft Outlook to manage email messages, Google provides G-Suite Sync for Microsoft Outlook to view your Binghamton email on your Windows computer. Please note that while Outlook can... read more.
Mail Merge using Word and Outlook
For information on how to use Outlook and Word for mail merge, click here.
Google Groups & Listservs
Google Groups is a convenient way to send messages to groups of people with a common interest including groups, departments, classes or organizations. Google Groups provide similar functionality to traditional listservs, but give the Group Owner the ability to create and manage the group. Many groups on campus use Google Groups to communicate with their members.
Create a Google Group for sending email messages to your group, class department or organization
The Help Desk recommends creating a Google Group to efficiently manage sending messages to your group, department, class or organization. Google Groups require an owner with a Binghamton University email address who can create, manage and delete Groups...read more.
Add users not in binghamton.edu to a Google Group
Log in to your Binghamton email (http://bmail.binghamton.edu) and click Groups from
the Apps menu. -Open the Group you want to manage - Go to Group Settings - General
-Go to Allow External Members and select "On" so that... read more.
For more information about creating a Google Group please visit IT Self Service.
Add or remove Listserv Owners
Listserv Owners can add new owners or remove owners on their lists by logging on to http://listserv.binghamton.edu. Log on by entering your Binghamton email address and your Listserv password. If you don't have a Listserv password...read more.
Unable to add subscriber to Listserv - signup file error
A List Owner may see the following error when trying to add a subscriber to a Listserv: "(email address) is not yet in the signup file. Please specify the full name of the person as in ADD MYLIST JOE@XYZ.EDU Joe H Smith". If you are adding subscribers...read more.
Check your Binghamton University Email regularly
University offices and individual members of the University community rely on Binghamton University email addresses as their primary means of communication both to individuals (via one-on-one email messages) and to the community at large (via listservs and other multi-recipient transmissions). Although some mail, both "official" and unofficial, is sent both by email and in hard copy, the University sends all official mail to faculty, staff, and students to their individual email addresses in the "binghamton.edu" domain, and sometimes only to those addresses. By "official" we mean such things as grades, offers (and denials) of employment, library overdue and book-arrival notices, bills for tuition and fees, notices of probation or suspension or termination, and letters of commendation or reprimand -- among many other time-sensitive and important communications we could mention. For that reason, all faculty, staff, and students should check their Binghamton email frequently and are expected to do so at least weekly during the academic year while classes are in session. Individual faculty and others may require even more frequent checks by, for example, students enrolled in a particular course or employees working in a particular office. Users should recognize that their email can contain important and highly confidential information that they may wish to ensure remains secure and confidential by not giving others access to it.
Email Filtering
Viruses, worms and spam (unsolicited commercial email) have become increasingly prevalent in electronic mail sent to the University community, some of it capable of causing damage to our infrastructure and resulting in costly downtime. In order to protect the integrity of campus computing, Google provides spam filtering for campus email. Click here and here, for more info. on Gmail.
Transfer Google Account messages
To transfer your messages to another Google account, sign into http://bmail.binghamton.edu using the account you want to Transfer from and click on the Binghamton University logo in the upper right corner of the screen and... read more.
