Undergraduate Policies and Procedures

Correspondence - Email

The University of Texas at Dallas recognizes the value and efficiency of communication between faculty/staff and students through electronic mail. At the same time, email raises some issues concerning security and the identity of each individual in an email exchange.

All official student email correspondence will be sent only to a student's UT Dallas email address and UT Dallas will only consider email requests originating from an official UT Dallas student email account. This allows the University to maintain a high degree of confidence in the identity of each individual's corresponding via email and the security of the transmitted information.

The University of Texas at Dallas furnishes each student with a free email account that is to be used in all communication with university personnel. According to the Information Security Office, automatic forwarding of emails to a personal email account outside UT Dallas is dangerous and highly discouraged because the contents are exposed to Internet attackers and third-party email services with no contract with UT Dallas. For these reasons, automatic external email forwarding has been disabled.

If you have a particular reason to need this ability, you can check the procedure to submit an "Automated Email Forward to External Services" exemption request to the Information Security Office here.