Contact: Harriet Laird
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A cooperative effort between the Mississippi State Student Association and university Information Technology Services has generated an improved student e-mail system with increased storage space.
BullyMail, powered by Google, gives students 7.5 gigabytes of memory, a significant increase over the previous storage of 20 megabytes.
"Over the summer, the Student Association worked hand in hand with ITS on this change in student e-mail and on developing a migration process from the old system," SA President Thomas Sellers said of the organization's unanimous passage of Resolution 17 which expressed a need for the conversion.
He said, "While BullyMail will drastically increase students' e-mail capacity, it also reduces the risk of not receiving important class e-mails from instructors and peers."
Now through Oct. 4, students who log in to the MSU web portal, oncampus.msstate.edu, will have the option to convert their existing onCampus e-mail account to BullyMail. New students will automatically be new BullyMail account holders.
"The transition is basically transparent," said Mike Rackley, head of ITS. "The current e-mail address held by students will not change, continuing to be the same in the new BullyMail system as in the old onCampus one."
Students not converting to BullyMail by Oct. 4 will automatically be converted after that date.
MSU joins other universities such as Vanderbilt, Clemson and Louisiana State who've changed to a Google system.
For more information, call the ITS Help Desk at 662-325-0631 or toll free at 888-398-6394, or e-mail helpdesk@msstate.edu.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.