Google Email (gmail)

About

Dominican provides each student with a Google email (GMail) account. The GMail accounts are set up so that the address appears just like a regular Dominican email address.

Access

• Access directly at http://mail.students.dominican.edu.
• Or access from within the other Google services by clicking on the link for "mail".

Important Information about Your Account

Your email address does not change, it will still be first.last@students.dominican.edu.

If you used Dominican email in the past 

• You login to the new google email system the same way as the old system. Your username is your Penguin Pass Student ID and your password was the one set up with IT.
  
• You login to your email at http://mail.students.dominican.edu.
  
• The emails that were in your old Dominican account will no longer be there.  If you feel you must have those, call IT at 415-257-0123 and provide us with your username/password.  We will retreive your old emails and move them to the new system for you.  We can only do this within the first two weeks of the beginning of the semester.  After that they will be gone.

If you had your Dominican emails forwarded to another email in the past

• Login to your new Google Email the first time.
• You will have to set up the forwarding feature yourself in the new system.  IT no longer sets this up for you. 

Some specific facts about the service

• The url to access email is http://mail.students.dominican.edu
• Your username is your Dominican Penguin Pass Student ID and your password is your Penguin Pass password.
• Each user gets over 6GB of storage.
• Advertisements have been disabled.
• You can use any POP3 or IMAP compatible software to access your GMail account.  However the Dominican Information Technology Department does not provide technical support for these access methods.  The Information Technology Department will support users to access their web based email.

Finding other Dominican students' email addresses

You can find other Dominican students' email addresses inside GMail. Currently, to search other student's addresses, you need to click on "Compose Mail" first, and then click on "Choose from contacts". Type part of the name to search for their address. You can add them to your contacts from this screen if you want to build up a personal contacts list.

1. In your mail account, click on Compose Mail.
2. Click on Choose from contacts below the To: field to bring up your shared address book.
3. In the pop-up window, you'll see a list labeled Most Contacted, which contains your most frequently used contacts. To see a list of all your personal contacts, click on All Contacted. To send to people on these lists, simply click on all the contacts you want to send to to add them to the To: field below. Note: These lists are both propagated from your personal contacts. If your account is new, these lists may be empty.
4. To send to a user at your domain who isn't included in your personal contacts list, simply type the first few letters of their first name, last name, or username into the search box. You can also search for a nickname or email list. When your desired contact appears, click on the name to add that contact to the To: field.
5. When you've added all the contacts you wish to send to, click Done to compose and send your message to the selected contacts.
6. Once you've sent to a contact from your shared address book, they'll be added to your contacts list. The next time you want to send them a message, their email address will auto-complete as you begin to type it.

Detailed Help

• More detailed help about using Gmail
  
• How to setup your own Email client with Gmail via IMAP
• How to setup Gmail for mobile application
• How to setup Gmail for iPhone  |  Video tutorial for iPhone (recommended!)
  
• Search for other Dominican students' email addresses