Google Apps FAQ

You can log on to Banweb and set up your account.  If you do not have your password for Banweb, please see the Registrar in Fidel. For more detailed instructions please click here (PDF).

 All users will get an email account with the following formats:

         Faculty and Staff - FirstName.LastName@nmt.edu

         Students - FirstName.LastName@student.nmt.edu

         Club/Department Accounts - Club/DeptName@npe.nmt.edu

Yes.  We have a policy and procedure for requesting the use of a different name. Please contact the ITC Help Desk at 575-835-5700 or help@nmt.edu and include a reason for the change with your request.

You are not allowed to set up forwarding for @nmt.edu addresses (staff accounts).  You can still forward email from @student.nmt.edu accounts, however. Information about automatic forwarding in Gmail can be found here.

Yes. However, if you do not use a web browser there are features that will not work.  Google recommends that you use IMAP if possible.

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//support/enterprise/static/gapps/art/users/en/gammo/gammo_migration_chart.pdf

Set up of IMAP clients https://support.google.com/mail/troubleshooter/1668960?hl=en

Set up of POP clients https://support.google.com/mail/troubleshooter/6323470

 Files with these extensions cannot be sent or received: .ade, .adp, .bat, .chm, .cmd, .com, .cpl, .exe, .hta, .ins, .isp, .jar, .jse, .lib, .lnk, .mde, .msc, .msp, .mst, .pif, .scr, .sct, .shb, .sys, .vb, .vbe, .vbs, .vxd, .wsc, .wsf, .wsh.

Even if they are zipped up they cannot be sent or received.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6590?hl=en

The maximum size for attachments (doesn’t matter how many, just what they add up to) is 25MB.

Storage space is unlimited for email and documents.

To see the guidelines for creating a username for your Google Account or Gmail, they can be found here