As a student of Southern Connecticut State University, you were given an email account at the time of your admission to the unviersity. You may access your emails via the university portal, MySCSU.  Your email address is your Windows/MySCSU username@southernct.edu.

MySCSU email accounts at SCSU have a default quota of 100MB with a maximum message size of 10MB. Quota increases are not available.

Email Settings

When you first log into MySCSU, you will see a preview of your email inbox.  Clicking the E-mail icon will open your entire inbox into a new window.  You can change how you receive your messages, how you send your messages, who do you block, and what filters you have set up.

1. Log into MySCSU and click on the email icon to open your inbox.
2. You will see three tabs at the top: E-mail, Address Book, and Options.  Click Options.
   • Auto Forward:  You can have your mail sent to your personal email account.  If you choose to have your email forwarded, a copy will not be saved in your MySCSU folder.
   • Auto Reply: You can set an away message if you are on vacation and cannot access email.
   • Display Settings: You can choose how many messages you wish to see per page and how you wish to delete messages.
   • Message Preferences: You may request a Read Receipt and always save a copy of sent message.
   • Signature: You can also create a signature that will appear at the bottom of each email.
   • Filters: You may create filters to sort your incoming email automatically into folders and also filter out unwanted emails.


3. To edit your address book, click the Address Book tab.  Here you can put your contacts into groups for easier access.

Important: We strongly recommend that you routinely purging unwanted or non-essential messages from your mailbox. Southern Connecticut State University provides students with SCSU email addresses, which most academic and administrative offices use to send you messages. If you choose to forward this address to a non-SCSU account (e.g., Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo!), the Help Desk will not be able to help you with problems concerning that account. More importantly, if this forwarding fails for any reason, you may miss important official communications sent to your SCSU address for which you are still responsible.