Communication
CRITICAL INFORMATION REGARDING STUDENT EMAIL
The University of Maine System has designated MaineStreet email
as the email account of record for all students, including those
at UMaine. Among other benefits, this will improve information
security, assure consistency and simplify communications with
students who are enrolled for classes at more than one system
university.
All official correspondence between the university and its
students will be addressed to the student's MaineStreet email
account (e.g. john.doe@maine.edu). UMaine will continue to use
FirstClass for many forms of internal correspondence, so it will
be critical for all students to have regular access to both
accounts. The simplest way to accomplish this is to forward
MaineStreet email to FirstClass.
You may either check or forward your MaineStreet email by
visiting
http://mail.maine.edu. To forward your email to either
FirstClass or another email account of your choice, select the
option: "change the destination of email sent to your @Maine.edu
address."
More details about how accomplish this are at
http://www.studentrecords.umaine.edu/mailforward.html.
UMaine is also making some changes in its FirstClass activation
process, to help streamline communications for prospective and new
students.
When a student applies to UMaine, he or she will be asked to
activate his or her MaineStreet account, creating access to
official University of Maine System email and creating a way for
the appropriate UMaine offices to establish communications.
When a student confirms enrollment at UMaine, he or she will be
invited to activate a FirstClass account, with the recommended
option of forwarding the MaineStreet email to FirstClass.
These measures will have the added benefit of diminishing the
load on the FirstClass system because only enrolled UMaine
students will
be using it. Similarly, fewer registered users will reduce the
university's licensing costs, leading to critical savings in a
difficult budget environment.
