Overview
Providence College provides Microsoft 365 email accounts to all students, faculty, and staff. These accounts are integrated with Microsoft Office applications and other Providence College systems and resources. See more about User Account Information.
All Providence College Microsoft 365 accounts, including Outlook and OneDrive, are setup with multi-factor authentication (MFA). This requires the use of something you know, which is your password, as well as something you have, such as your phone, in order to access your account. See more information on changing your password and setting up multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Check Your Email
Check your email on the web at outlook.office.com.
Check your email using the Outlook client: Email Client Configuration.
Storage Limits
Student email accounts have 50 GB of storage.
Faculty and staff email accounts have 100 GB of storage.
This includes all email folders, including Sent Items and Deleted Items. We recommend you regularly empty your Sent Items and your Deleted Items. We also recommend that you do not use your email account as file storage. If you send yourself attachments, be sure to delete those emails. You should use OneDrive for file storage.
Email Size Limits
There is a size limit of 35 MB for emails sent or received through your PC email account. This includes the body of the email, attachments, and a small amount of overhead.
Large files can be uploaded to your OneDrive and shared with the link via email.
Forwarding
Per Section 4b of the Acceptable Usage Policy for Information Technology, automatic forwarding of your email account to an external address is not permitted, including through the use of Inbox Rules.
Retention
In compliance with the College’s Record Retention and Destruction Policy, all individual email messages older than seven (7) years will be automatically and permanently deleted.
Security Features
Please see Email Security Features for more information.