Web-based Access to Your ACS Mail

This site offers Web-based access to ACS Mail through Horde, our recommended interface.

Planned downtime

Identity theft scams, viruses, and spyware

Don't become a victim of identity theft! A recent round of spam claims that BU will delete your account unless you respond and supply your password to "VERIFY YOUR BU.EDU EMAIL ACCOUNT NOW!!!" This is an identity theft scam. No one at Boston University will ever ask you to e-mail your password. Have you received suspicious e-mail asking you to reply or to go to a website to provide information about your Boston University, Bank of America, eBay, PayPal, or Chase Bank account? Don't do it! None of these will ever ask you for your password or other confidential information in e-mail. These dangerous phishing scams are attempts to steal your identity.

Maintain a healthy degree of skepticism. Besides identity theft scams, you may receive attachments infected with viruses or spyware. Messages may falsely claim to be from a bank, a company, or BU. Avoid opening any attachments you were not expecting or from people you don't know. Don't respond to requests for your password or other confidential information. Make sure you install and keep up to date both an anti-virus package and an anti-spyware package. McAfee VirusScan version 8.5i is free to the BU community.

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SilkyMail will no longer be available as of Monday 16 June 2008

Beginning on Monday 16 June 2008, SilkyMail will no longer be available for reading ACS mail. ACS mail will continue to be available, unchanged, through Horde and many other mail clients. You can easily transfer any SilkyMail address books you might have to Horde, even long after SilkyMail itself is no longer available. More details are available. Until 16 June, SilkyMail continues to be available.