This morning, I received a friendly mail from UNISA.
Dear MR XXX XXX
We’d like to make it easier for you to communicate with us, so from 2009, Unisa will be offering all registered students a unique email address, free of charge, with 10 gigabytes worth of space. Here’s how it works.
When you register as a student at Unisa for 2009, we will create your myLife email account for you, which you MUST activate when you re-join myUnisa. From this point onwards, Unisa will disregard all other email addresses it has for you on record and will use only your myLife email address to communicate with you. If you decide, therefore, not to activate this email account, you will not receive emails from Unisa. If you would like to use another email account, you must redirect or forward your myLife email to your preferred email account. For more information and to find out how to activate your email account for life, visit myUnisa.
And yes, it’s as easy as that!
Yes, as a full time professional and part time student, I really do need yet another bloody account that I have to check daily after UNISA has already forced me to register on myUNISA and the Osprey server (which has it’s own messaging system, by the way).
It all becomes clear when you look at the branding on the mail. Dear old Microsoft is the email provider in this venture.
I’m sure that there are students out there who would love getting an email address, but I hate the way my freedom of choice has been overruled.
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Any way you could forward all the mails to your gmail account?
Who knows. No mention of it, though.
This is hardly unique to UNISA though.
Why on earth is my right to choose taken away. I pay to be a student, and love UNISA but now I can’t get this email to work!!!!
This is not right:( makes me unhappy!!!
Yeachh, your sentiments == mine. By trial-and-error I found out how to set up POP3 sucking from Gmail: http://lohan.me/lohan/my-life/studies/unisa-and-mylifeunisaacza-account-madness
The trick is to enable SSL and use port 995.
My frustrations are with this osprey thing. As a new student with limted computer knowledge, I now have three signins and password each for mylife, myunisa and this osprey. Now some of the study material is posted on osprey and I am forever getting a gateway timeout when I try to access this osprey thing. I am getting very frustrated with this osprey thing.
Osprey is the computer department’s server. Usually it’s the most stable of the lot. If you’re having problems, give them a call and let them know.
Hi
please can someone help me. I am trying to access my unisa email account, but it keeps re-directing me to my hotmail account. i did not choose this option. the problem is that i am not recieving anything from unisa in the account, and i cannot login to my unisa. if someone can explain how to do this i would really appreciate it. thanks
Hi Sam,
I’m afraid you will have to contact UNISA for help. You should be able to get help with myUNISA here: myUnisaHelp@unisa.ac.za
I been struggling to open myUnisa account, now I understand, Thank you for higlighting this to us. But what must I do to contact Unisa in order for them to send me mylife account, because their phones are constantly engaged.
Is anyone of you know what is the current status about Barnie Pityane. I am afraid I am supposed to write my supp exams before the end of May. All I heard was that his suspension/dismall as student demanded was suspended indefinate. Will we be able to write without any intereference.
Mumsy,
I don’t work at UNISA, and I’ve suspended my studies for health reasons. I don’t know of any other way to contact them other than email or calling.
Regards,
Gustav
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