Email HELP Index ... How to get at your University email

Here's more info on the University's new email arrangements for students - '@bathspa.org' Email.

Webmail: Remote access to your 'Exchange' account from any web-connected computer, anywhere. (An alternative, from home, is to use email software and IMAP - saving your phone bill by going online only to send and receive).
Outlook: Use 'Outlook' to connect with your Bath Spa University exchange account, giving you email, calendar and information sharing. Here's more info on using Outlook to connect from home
Entourage: 'Entourage' is Microsoft's 'Exchange client for the mac' - so you'd suspect it would work like Outlook.

However, it doesn't work like 'Outlook'. You'll find that there's various commonplace things you can't do from 'Entourage' - such as manage personal distribution lists.

While it's ok to use 'Entourage' for email, understanding why it doesn't work as it perhaps should would involve you in serious geekiness.

The University is investigating other options in addition to 'Entourage' - such as providing 'Outlook' itself to OS X users via a remote desktop session. Watch this space for more information and less geekery.
Using Gmail to handle your University mail: As an alternative to 'Entourage', some people prefer to handle their University mail using Googlemail, which is web based. Here's some brief details on how you might proceed.

Your university email account
How much space you have and how to manage this ...

You can set up rules to forward email from most accounts to one you actually read.

The University spam filter

About Email
Here's some info about how email works, and things to be careful about.

Email skills
Basic skills, such as sending email, receiving it, also a guide to setting up email software, setting up email rules