Overview
Undergraduate and taught postgraduate students mail has been moved to the Office 365 service. See information about the new Email and Calendar service for students linked below:
The old Student Mail Service is still available for recently graduated students who are in their grace period.
You can access SMS by either using webmail in any web browser, or an IMAP mail client such as Outlook or Thunderbird. Most students access the service using the web.
Login to SMS using webmail
To connect to SMS using webmail login to https://www.sms.ed.ac.uk/
Configuring a mail client
Settings for various mail clients such as Outlook, Thunderbird and smartphones.
Availability and entitlement
The old Student Mail Service is still available for recently graduated students who are in their grace period.
Out of office messages
How to setup an out of office message using webmail.
More webmail help
More in depth documentation on accessing your email using a web browser.
This article was published on Feb 1, 2013