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McGill alumni (graduates of McGill University) keep their McGill Email Address (firstname.lastname@mail.mcgill.ca) for life. McGill Email Addresses are for personal (non-commercial) use.
Email sent to your McGill Email Address is delivered to and stored on Microsoft Exchange Online (Microsoft 365). If you have another email service you use more often, you may forward your McGill mail to that service. Please see Options for dealing with multiple email services.
In an effort to limit the impacts of unsolicited and fraudulent emails being sent in large numbers to the McGill community, McGill’s IT Infrastructure & Information Security has decided to limit the number of emails that can be sent from non-2FA (two-factor authentication) enabled email accounts.
This limit will be imposed on all such accounts as of October 3rd, 2023. From that date on, accounts that are NOT two-Factor Authentication (2FA) enabled (at this moment, mostly Alumni and Retirees’ accounts) will be restricted to sending messages to a maximum of 100 recipients per 24 hours. This limit is imposed on the number of recipients, regardless of the number of emails sent.
Important: McGill Active Directory managed distribution lists are not affected by this change. Such distribution lists are treated as 1 recipient.For more information, please read the FAQs about the change to the recipient limits for your Non-2FA enabled accounts.
Graduates of McGill University.
New alumni: Continue using your McGill email as you did as a student: via a McGill mailbox on Microsoft Office 365 or one of the recommended options for dealing with multiple email services; no request needs to be made.
Past alumni: You can request Email for Life by signing up through the McGill Alumni Website.
Use your McGill Username and McGill Password to access your email via any of the following:
There is no cost associated with this service.
Requests to create or reinstate an Email for Life mailbox are processed during regular office hours (Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.).
Access to McGill email is available 24 X 7, except during maintenance. Check the home page of the IT Support site for announcements regarding service interruptions.
Self-serve resources:
Submit a request for Email support.