lawnet.ucla.eduLawNET is now on Gmail

 FAQs Mail Calendar Documents UCLA Law Gmail offers over 7 GB of storage and an unprecedented web and desktop experience. Gmail is also available on most mobile devices (including Andriod, BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad and many more ). Using our automated system, you can migrate your e-mail, contacts and personal settings from the old iMail system to Gmail. -- All remaining accounts are being migrated. To access your email please click here . -- Yes, let's migrate my account » No, maybe some other time » -- If you are an alumni and cannot remember your login and/or password please contact alum@law.ucla.edu or (310) 794-5296. For all other questions please contact LawNET help desk at (310) 825-4689 or help@law.ucla.edu . If you have not already migrated your account to Gmail you can continue to access your mail through the old iMail system. However, once the migration is completed you cannot switch back. All Alumni have been migrated to Gmail. Use the orange button above to login. If you are a current student and have not migrated your account you can still access your mail using the old system » If you want fast turnaround, please do not wait until the last minute to migrate your account. -- Why Gmail? Do I need to migrate if I forward emails? -- Setup push e-mail New Learn more about Email Learn more about Docs & Spreadsheets Learn more about Calendar Configure your Smartphone Configure other clients (Outlook/more...) How can I migrate my account? -- Get answers to common questions from our students and alumni. Learn More » Answers to common questions Why Gmail? UCLA School of Law is tranisitioning to a new e-mail system powered by Google for students and alumni which offers a lot of new capabalities including: Improved e-mail access More storage (over 7 GB) ActiveSync for iPhone/iTouch users (always stay in sync) Industry standard SPAM control Advanced scheduling and shared calendars ( Google Calendar ) Shared documents and spreadsheets ( Google Docs ) Powerful contact management and much more... You can get all these features and still maintain your @lawnet.ucla.edu e-mail address. Do I need to migrate if I forward emails? Yes, even if you forward all your mail to an external account like Google, Yahoo, or Hotmail you should still migrate your account. During the migration simply select the Forwarding option and uncheck all other items. This will migrate the forwarding rule to Google and your mail will continue to flow normally. However, please remember we do not migrate rules, if you forward using a rule it will not migrate. You need to contact the LawNET help desk. -- Setup push e-mail New You can now setup your iPhone or your other Windows Mobile devices to push e-mail to your phone. This allows you to stay connected to your e-mail and get notification almost immediately when an e-mail arrives. Find out more at: http://goo.gl/gJ96W Learn more about Email LawNET email is UCLA Law's free webmail service, powered by Google. It comes with built-in Google search technology and 7 gigabytes of storage. You can keep all your important messages, files and pictures forever, use search to quickly and easily find anything you're looking for, and make sense of it all with a new way of viewing messages as part of conversations. If you've ever used Gmail before, you will be instantly familiar with LawNET email. Read more about Gmail » Learn more about Docs & Spreadsheets Docs & Spreadsheets is a free web-based word processing and spreadsheet program powered by Google that keeps documents current and lets the people you choose update files from their own computers. You can, for example, coordinate your student group's homework assignments, access your family to-do list from work or home, or collaborate with remote colleagues on a new business plan. Read more about Docs & Spreadhseets » Learn more about Calendar Using Google Calendar, you can add events and invitations effortlessly, share with friends and family (or keep things to yourself), and search across the web for events you might enjoy. It's organizing made easy. Read more about Google Calendar » Configuring your Smartphone There are two ways to read your LawNET email on your Smartphone: The first and the method that requires the least configuration is to point your Smartphone browser to the http://mail.lawnet.ucla.edu/ address. This will take you to the feature rich mobile experience of LawNET email. Unfortunately, this process tends to be slow because you cannot stay logged in for more than 30 minutes, and your Smartphone cannot automatically check your e-mail for you. If you need either of those features - the ability to stay logged in indefinietly without typing the username and password or you want your phone to automatically check your e-mail you have to use the second option. You can find out more about some of the features on the web-based mobile LawNET email experience. The second option and the most convenient option is to setup your Smartphone to receive LawNET e-mails using the IMAP protocol. With this option you have the benefit of storing your credentials and setup your smartphone to automatically check e-mails. Find more details on how to setup your Smartphone with LawNET email . Configuring clients (Outlook/Thunderbird and more...) Please use this website for instructions regarding your appropriate application and device. http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=12806 Please also remember, if the documentation refers to @google.com you should enter @lawnet.ucla.edu. How can I migrate my account? Migrating your account from the old system to the new LawNET email is an automated process. You are in complete control over the migration. You choose if you want to migrate your e-mail, your contacts and even your calendar entries among other things. Once we receive your request one of our systems will communicate with you using a secondary e-mail address or text message providing status updates on your migration status. Migration service is provided on a first-come-first-serve basis so signup today! Depending on the volume of requests, it can take anywhere from 5 minutes to 72 hours before your migration even starts. During this period you can continue to use the old system - but once you receive an e-mail (or text message) suggesting that the migration has begun you will not have access to your e-mail. Once the migration starts the process does not take any longer than 20 minutes. Migrate your account today » -- I've migrated to Gmail but I cannot find my e-mail? If you choose to migrate your e-mail we'll migrate your Inbox, Sent Items, Trash and all other sub folders and their messages from the old system to Gmail. Once the migration is complete we highly recommend that you go through the Gmail messages and verify that you have everything. Remember, once the migration is complete you cannot login to your old e-mail nor can you revert back to using the old system. -- How do I lookup faculty/staff e-mail? Unfortunately, currently you cannot look up faculty/staff e-mail addresses directly from Gmail. We are working very hard to provide this feature sometime very soon in the future. In the meantime, you can use the UCLA Law Online Directory to look up addresses for faculty, staff and students. Is LawNET email available to staff? No, UCOP (University of California, Office of the President) policies prohibit faculty and staff to use external communication mechanisms to serve business needs. How do I login to Gmail? Your Gmail credentials are the same as your LawNET credentails. The username and password you use to connect to the wireless network, the computer labs is what you would use to login to Gmail (LawNET email). Why cannot I login to Gmail? Accounts that have been migrated to Google can login to LawNET email account. When you try to login you get a message saying "Your username is not registered to access Google Applications. Please ...