Login to your email

Which account should I use?

All students, faculty and staff at Louisiana Tech have an email address in the format username@latech.edu.

Quick Summary

	Students	Faculty/Staff
office.com	username@office.latech.edu	username@office.latech.edu
workspace.google.com	username@email.latech.edu	username@email.latech.edu
Microsoft Email (Outlook)	❌	✅
Google Email (Gmail)	✅	❌

Email Login

• Students use Google Gmail (@email.latech.edu) as their university email which can be accessed through LaTech’s Gmail.
• Faculty and staff use Microsoft Outlook (@office.latech.edu) as their university email.
• Important: When sending an email to members of the Louisiana Tech community, use each person’s username@latech.edu email address. This address automatically routes messages to the recipient’s official university email account, whether they use Microsoft Outlook (@office.latech.edu) or Google Gmail (@email.latech.edu).

Microsoft 365 Login

• Both groups have access to Microsoft 365 suite and Google Workspace, with the main difference being which email platform they use.
• When logging in to Microsoft 365 apps both faculty and students must use their @office.latech.edu email.

What is Webmail?

In rare cases a student or faculty may have a webmail account if they were with LaTech when the system was still in use.

The information below is for those that have a webmail and not for other students or faculty.

Webmail Login

To login into webmail, please do the following:

1. Go to webmail.latech.edu
2. Log in using your Louisiana Tech credentials. If your email is abc123@latech.edu, your username will be abc123.

Additional Information

My webmail inbox is full

If your inbox is full, you will need to delete some of your emails. Please do the following.

1. Select the emails you wish to delete.
2. Right click and select “Delete”. This will move all of your emails into the trash folder.
3. Right click on your trash folder and click “Empty”. This will permanently delete those emails and clear up some storage.

If you do not have a trashfolder, please do the following:

1. Go to your inbox.
2. In the left area, where your folders are, click “Folder Actions” and select “Create Mailbox”
3. Name this mailbox “Trash”.
4. Now, hover over the settings wheel in the top and Go to “Preferences”, and select “Mail” from the dropdown menu.

5. Under the Message section, click “Deleting and Moving messages”.
6. Where it says “Trash Mailbox”, your gonna click and select the “Trash” mailbox you created in Step 3.
7. Click the “Save” option at the bottom of the section.

You should now be able to delete emails.

If you do not have the option of empty and you have a trash mailbox, please try the following:

1. Go to the mailbox where the emails are you want to delete.
2. Select the emails to be deleted.
3. Click the “Other” option, which is right above the “Date” of the emails.
4. Select “Purge Delete”.

This will also delete the emails from your inbox.

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