Email Policy

email accounts are provided to individuals solely for their use. email accounts are not transferrable to other users. Under no circumstance should someone share their password with another individual. ITS will never ask you for your password. It is your responsibility to protect passwords and ensure that other people do not use your email account. The following is a summary of email violations at Cornell University:


  • Sharing email accounts
  • Sending chain email
  • Using email to harass others
  • Forging email accounts to send out email as another person
  • Flooding people with email in an attempt to disrupt them
  • Generally using email to interfere with the activities of others