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Apps at UMass Amherst

Apps at UMass Amherst is a customized version of Google’s popular suite of online productivity and collaboration tools designed especially for educational institutions.

As part of Apps at UMass Amherst, undergraduate students will be using Google Mail for their UMass Amherst email. A separate version of Apps at UMass Amherst, without Google Mail, will be available to faculty, staff, and graduate students in Fall 2013. 

Highlights: 
  • 10 GB of email storage
  • Google Calendar to schedule meetings and share calendars with others
  • Google Drive to create and share documents online, in real time
  • Google Sites to easily create Web sites and share them with the world
  • And much more....
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Last Updated: May. 14, 2013

Service Settings

General Google Apps IMAP Settings

Mail protocol: IMAP

(display) Email address: NetID@umass.edu

Username: NetID@umass.edu

Password: Google Apps application-specific password

Incoming mail server: imap.gmail.com

Security: SSL via port 993

General Google Apps SMTP/Outgoing Mail Settings

Outgoing mail server: smtp.gmail.com

Security: TLS via port 587

Note: Checking the outgoing server requires authentication/authorization, so use the same settings as the incoming server.

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