owa.ugent.be (for students)
This page is only for users of the Office365 mail environment, ie. UGent students.
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 '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 'OK'.
Forward or divert e-mails
You can forward your mails to a different e-mail address.
Forwarded messages will be shown as messages that were sent by you. Replies will be sent to the address that forwarded the message and not to the original sender.
Forwarded messages will be shown as messages that were sent by you. Replies will be sent to the address that forwarded the message and not to the original sender.
- 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 'Mail'.
- In the category 'Accounts', click on 'Forwarding'.
- Select 'Start forwarding'.
- Fill in the e-mail address where mails need to be forwarded to.
- You can choose to keep a copy of the mails in your UGent mailbox.
- Choose 'Save'.
Set 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 'Mail'.
- In the category 'Automatic processing', click on 'Inbox and sweep rules'.
- Click on the plus symbol (+).
- Fill in a name, eg 'SPAM'.
- At 'When the message arrives, and it matches all of these conditions', select 'It includes these words > in the subject...'.
- In the new window, type [SPAM] and click on the plus symbol.
- Confirm by clicking 'OK'.
- At 'Do all of the following', select 'Move, copy, or delete' > Move the message to folder...'.
- In the newly opened window, select the folder 'Junk Email' and click 'OK'.
- Choose 'OK' to save the new rule.