The university, UAF in particular, has a vast number of disparate email systems. We are first looking at consolidating Statewide and UAF email. Once that is complete, we will look at consolidating with UAF department-specific email servers.

There is a business need for a single, official, reliable email address that can be used for university business communications.

In addition, user demand for increasing email storage, faster email responses, increased file attachments, and platform and location independent mail services has necessitated a look at what we currently are doing for email.