What are some ways to organize my CUNY unified mailbox?

Since your new unified CUNY mailbox will receive messages from all CUNY colleges you attend, here are some suggestions for managing your mailbox.

Choosing your send-from address

By default, messages are sent from your preferred email address in CUNYfirst. See how to change your preferred email address. You can also select different send-from addresses for each message.

Organizing your mailbox

Some suggestions from Microsoft on how you can use folders, rules, categories, and Outlook features to help organize your mailbox. For example, you can automatically sort messages by campus affiliation.

• Use categories in Outlook

• Organize your inbox – how to use sweep, rules, folders, and categories to help manage email for multiple addresses in your CUNY mailbox.

• Create a folder or subfolder in Outlook

• Manage email messages by using rules in Outlook to automatically perform specific actions on messages that arrive in your inbox.

• Organize your inbox with Archive, Sweep, and other tools in Outlook on the web