About your email

Email address

You are automatically allocated an Monash email account once you have your computer account. Monash uses web-based email systems, which allow you to access your Monash emails from anywhere in the world.

Your email address takes the form: Authcateusername@student.monash.edu.au. For instance, if your name is Fred Bloggs, your Authcate username is fblo1, and your email address will be fblo1@student.monash.edu.

This is the official Monash address that the university will use to communicate university business to you when it uses email; for instance when sending a HECS liability notification. The university does not record or send to non-Monash email addresses.

Email attachments

The largest file you can send or receive using Monash WebMail is 5MB.

Forwarding email

You can forward your Monash email to another email address if you prefer. Once forwarded emails leave your mailbox in the university system, Monash cannot guarantee their delivery and copies of sent emails will not be kept.

To forward emails to a non-Monash account:

• Access your WebMail via: mail.monash.edu.au
• Click on Options, then Forwarding and Delivery - this will open a new window
• Enter your Authcate username and password again
• Click on Email Delivery
• Enter your preferred address in the Forwarding Address box
• Select Forward emails to the address above
• Click on Submit Changes then close this window.