owa.ugent.be (for staff)
This page is only for users of the Exchange mail environment, ie. UGent staff.
You can manage your e-mails with rules, eg. an automatic reply or a SPAM rule, or to forward your e-mails.
When you enable rules, they will be continuously applied.
When you enable rules, they will be continuously applied.
Enable an automatic reply (vacation message)
- Surf to https://owa.ugent.be and log in.
- Click on the gear icon in the top right corner next to your name and then click 'Set automatic replies'.
- Select 'Send automatic replies'.
- Adjust the start and end time.
- Fill in the text you want. You can define different texts for people within UGent and for answers that will be sent to external people.
- Choose 'save'.
Forward or divert e-mails
- Surf to https://owa.ugent.be and log in.
- Click on the gear icon in the top right corner next to your name and then click 'Options'.
- On the left hand side, click 'organize email'.
- Click on the plus symbol and then on 'Create a new rule for arriving messages'.
- Choose a name, eg 'Forward'.
- 'When the message arrives, and': select '[Aplly to all messages]'
- 'Do the following': select 'Redirect the message to'.
- In the newly openend window, in the To field, you can fill in the e-mail address where mails need to be forwarded to. If it is a UGent address, you can select it from the address book.
- Confirm by clicking 'OK' and 'Save'.
Create a SPAM rule
- Surf to https://owa.ugent.be and log in.
- Click on the gear icon in the top right corner next to your name and then click 'Options'.
- On the left hand side, click 'organize email'.
- Click on the plus symbol and then on 'Create a new rule for arriving messages'.
- Choose a name, eg 'SPAM'.
- 'When the message arrives, and': select 'It includes these words in the subject...'
- In the newly openend window, type [SPAM] in the text field and click on the plus symbol.
- Confirm by clicking 'OK'.
- For 'Do the following:' you can choose to 'Move the message to folder...' and select the 'Unwanted items' folder. Or you can select 'Delete the message' to automatically remove it.
- Click 'save'.