KU staff, faculty, students, alumni, certain contractors and sponsored guests receive email accounts provided by KU IT to be used for conducting official university business.
Office 365 Outlook
Office 365 Outlook offers comprehensive email and calendaring services to faculty and staff. Collaboration tools are integrated with email services on Office 365 Outlook so you can arrange meetings with your colleagues more efficiently, view calendars of those who have granted you permission, schedule rooms and resources, and create to-do lists.
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Google Mail
Google Mail (part of KU Google Apps) is hosted through G Suite for Education. Many, although not all, services provided through commercially-available Google are also available through KU Google Apps.
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This service is available all the time.
This service is available at no charge to the KU community.