SFU Mail: Helpful Guide to Access SFU Email 2023
SFU Mail: Helpful Guide to Access SFU Email 2023
All students at Simon Fraser University can email using SFU mail. The web application used to access SFU Mail is called the Outlook Web App (OWA). OWA doesn’t need to be set up and is accessible from anywhere using any device with an internet browser. See below on this site to know more about accessing the SFU Email for the 2023 academic year.
Logging Into Your SFU Email
- Enter mail.sfu.ca into the browser’s address bar to access the Outlook Web App.
- Use your SFU computer ID and password to log in.
- You must specify your preferred language to English (Canada) and time zone to (UTC -08:00) Pacific Time if this is your first time checking in to OWA (US & Canada). Press Save.
- The Mail module will then be opened, where you can start utilizing your SFU Mail account.
Connecting Your Android to SFU Mail
- Navigate to Settings and straight to Accounts on your Android device.
- Select Add Account from the Accounts menu.
- The account you wish to add to your device is Exchange, so choose that.
- Type your SFU email address and click Next. Make sure that computingID@sfu.ca, not your alias, is added as your email address for this stage.
- After entering your SFU password, click Next.
- When prompted to send your account information, click OK.
- Make sure “mail.sfu.ca” is selected as the server. Click Next.
- Press OK when prompted to authenticate your device’s security control from the SFU Mail server.
- Select Activate this device administrator as you scroll down.
- You will set up and start getting emails on your SFU email. Choose Next.
- Now one of the accounts set up on your device will be your SFU Exchange Mail account.
- You can access SFU Mail on your Android mobile by entering your email client.
Connecting Your iPhone to SFU Mail
- Scroll down and choose Accounts and Passwords in the Settings app.
- Choose Add Account.
- Choose Exchange.
- Type your SFU email address. It is optional to use the description field. Choose Next. Make sure you add computingID@sfu.ca as your email address for this step rather than your alias
- To confirm that you want to sign in using Microsoft Exchange, select Sign In.
- Permit your SFU credentials to be verified by SFU Mail.
- A password for SFU Mail must be entered before moving on.
- Press Save after choose the SFU Mail account features you want to connect to your phone. Activating Contacts will sync the contacts on your device with those in your SFU Mail account.