As an UNSW Alumni, you are granted access to a life long zMail account. The zMail email service is provided exclusively to UNSW alumni. It is a separate service to the Office 365 email account used by Staff and Students.
The zMail service is a web-based email service that is managed and provisioned by UNSW and hosted on the Microsoft Office 365 platform.
Your zMail account will exist for as long as you maintain an association with the University as a UNSW alumnus.
For general information about Outlook Email please refer to the official Office support site.
4. Go to https://outlook.office365.com/ and login with the following credentials:
If your search of your zmail email folders is not finding what you are looking for, there are a number of steps you can take to ensure a full search of all items in your zmail folders.
Check whether Outlook is currently updating any of the folders (it should say 'All folders up to date' if complete). If it is currently in the process of a send receive, or updating / synchronising, there may be issues with the search.
Check whether the search is being run on the correct folder
Compare your Outlook against Office Web App (OWA) to see if the search also fails there (note: if your search doesn't return any results while using webmail it generally suggests that the item you're looking for has been moved or deleted)
Check Search Tools → Indexing status to see whether Outlook is still indexing
Try turning Cached Exchange Mode OFF and restarting Outlook
If the issue is with a shared mailbox, attempt to re-add the mailbox
Attempt to recreate the Outlook profile
There is a message on the bottom right corner of the window that says, "NEED PASSWORD!" When clicking this message to enter credentials, the credential box flashes on the screen for a second and disappears, therefore not allowing the user to enter their password. No updated password = no new emails being sent or received.
This is usually caused by an old password being stored in the "Work or School" account in Windows 10 Settings. These are the steps to fix this problem:
Open the Start Menu > search for Settings > go to Accounts > on the left pane, click on "Access work or school account"
If there is a "Work or School account" (e.g. z1234567@zmail.unsw.edu.au), select the account and click Disconnect
Restart Outlook and then click on "Need Password!" on the bottom-right corner
Enter email as: name@unswalumni.com, and then click Sign In with a Different Account
Enter credentials as below:
Username/Email: zID@zmail.unsw.edu.au
Password: Microsoft Password
If there is no Work or School account on Step 2, click on Connect and follow the process to create the account.
Due to increasing cyber security threats such as SPAM/Phishing/email impersonation attacks, UNSW has implemented a strict DMARC policy for UNSWAlumni.com.
As such, you may receive an error/bounceback message when you attempt to send an unauthenticated email from untrusted sources.
This action has been taken to better protect email security and reputation for yourself and UNSW.
To send an email as unswalumni.com, please log in to Microsoft 365 web portal to send it from your UNSWAlumni.com email address.
Alternatively, you may configure your preferred email client to send as your UNSWAlumni.com email address. More information about configuring email clients to your UNSWAlumni mailbox can be found here.
