McNeese Information Technology is preparing to replace the current e-mail system. The existing system has been in use for nearly six years and there have been many technological changes during that time. Previously, in most cases all student and employee accounts on the mail system had the naming convention of two letters and four numbers. The new mail system naming convention will be first initial and last name with a number added in case of duplicates and up to 15 characters. In many cases, the user ID will remain the same for employees.

However, some employees will have new IDs which are more consistent to the new naming convention. We will keep your old ID as an alias so any mail coming to that old address will still be delivered. For example, John Fontenot might have been jfonteno@ on the old system, but the new mail system has the account listed as jfontenot@. Email still coming to the jfonteno@ address will be delivered to the jfontenot@ account. Also for current employees, the old McNeese email system will have the account content migrated to the new mail system.

It is McNeese practice that only current employees and students have McNeese e-mail accounts.

*** If you are not currently employed by McNeese, your mcneese.edu address will only be available to you until July 31st. Please make the necessary arrangements to establish some other e-mail account and move any messages you wish to save out of your mcneese.edu account. ***

If you have any questions or comments about this change, please send an e-mail to: new-e-mail@mcneese.edu.