Cmail (Google Apps Education Edition) is Cornell's email, calendar, and collaboration service for students. Features include:
Cmail accounts are provided automatically to all students (including undergraduates, graduate students, and professional students). To use your Cmail account, you simply need to activate your Cornell NetID (see the New Students web site for more information about this process).
After you activate your NetID, you will be able to use your NetID and password to sign in to see your email (cmail.cornell.edu), or go to the Cmail start page (start.cmail.cornell.edu).
Your email address is your NetID@cornell.edu (for example, ewe1@cornell.edu).
It's your choice whether to have your Cornell email routed to Cmail. Even if you don't use Cmail for email, you can still use its other features. (You can change the routing for your Cornell email through the Who I Am service -- you'll need your NetID and password.)
Until 2009, Cornell had just one email system that faculty, staff, and students shared. You may hear people talk about their postoffice account, or WebMail, or Oracle Calendar.
These are all services that Cornell replaced with new services that are a better fit for the different needs of faculty, staff, and students.
Students began using Cmail in April 2009. Faculty and staff began using a central Microsoft Exchange system in September 2009.
Generally speaking, faculty and staff do not have Cmail accounts, and undergraduate students do not have accounts on the central Exchange service that faculty, staff, retirees, and some graduate students use. Exceptions can be made to meet very specific needs.
