California State University, Chico considers e-mail to be the essential method for communicating official university business with students. To provide the university with a simple contact point with which to communicate official university business, each student is provided with a campus WildcatMail account.

Checking WildcatMail and Forwarding to a Personal E-mail Account

Students are responsible for checking their WildcatMail regularly and ensuring that they are able to receive communications sent to their WildcatMail account. Students do have have the option of setting their WildcatMail account to forward to an existing personal e-mail account. Alternatively, they can allow e-mail sent to their WildcatMail e-mail address to be delivered directly to their WildcatMail inbox, which can be checked via the Portal or at the WildcatMail web site.

To determine if your WildcatMail is forwarded to another account, access the WildcatMail forwarding tool.

Should Students Forward Their WildcatMail Account?

Many commercial e-mail providers (yahoo, hotmail, gmail, etc.) do provide more storage than the WildcatMail system, so forwarding WildcatMail to a personal e-mail account may be the best option for many students. The storage space provided for WildcatMail accounts should be sufficient to store and organize school-related e-mail for students that would prefer to not have it forwarded to a personal account.

WildcatMail Features

• 100 MB mail storage quota/10 MB attachment size limit
• Built-in SPAM protection
• Fully-featured web-mail client, including address book and spell check
• Simple management of mail folders
• See the WildcatMail web interface in our WildcatMail tour!

Other Ways To Check WildcatMail

Users who would like to use mail programs like Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, or Thunderbird to access their WildcatMail can use our E-mail client setup guides to set up their client to access WildcatMail.