Accessing Your Email

Web-based Access

Important ! New students as of May 2009 will be using our latest email system, WhitMail, powered by Google. To access your email visit WhitMail.whitman.edu and log in with your standard Whitman account. More information about WhitMail and how to use it can be found in our WhitMail FAQ and Google's Help Center.

Returning students as well as some staff and faculty will need to continue to use our other web-based system, Webmail. To get started, simply log in at webmail.whitman.edu. More information can be found in our webmail guide.

Email Software and Mobile Devices

Whitman email can be accessed by using almost any third-party email software such as Thunderbird or Outlook, as well as some mobile devices. Check out our email set-up guide for more information, as well as step-by-step instructions for common email programs.

Additional Email Tools

Junk Mail, Virus, and Spam Filtering

Your incoming email is scanned for virus infections and spam by a service called Postini. If you would like to change your filtering settings, simply log into Postini. For more information, see our Postini guide.

Mailing Lists

Whitman has a number of campus-wide email lists, as well as resources for creating and managing your own mailing lists. See our mailing lists guide for more information. 

Email Forwarding

You can set up your account so that it will automatically forward all of your incoming Whitman email to another email address.  This is a good idea to do if you have recently graduated and are switching email addresses, or will not have access to your Whitman address for an extended period. See our forwarding email to another address guide for more information.

Setting a Vacation Message

You can also set up your Whitman email account so that it will automatically respond to all incoming messages with a generic "Away" or "I'm out of the office and on vacation" message.  It is a good idea to set a vacation message if you do not plan on reading any of your Whitman email for a significant period of time.

Saving Whitman Email and Data

If you are leaving Whitman as a recent graduate or staff or faculty no longer working at Whitman, this guide can help you save important emails and data uploaded onto netFiles.  Guide to Saving your Whitman Email and Data

Frequently Asked Questions

Have you looked through all the topics in this section and don't see the answer to your question?  Check out our Frequently Asked Questions section.