We provide all employees and students of the University with their own e-mail account with associated e-mail address and mailbox in our Exchange mail system. You can use it to manage e-mails, calendars and contacts via the webmailer OWA or programs such as Outlook.
There are two ways to access your Exchange account:
For more help and answers to the most common questions, see our Microsoft Exchange instructions.
Legal requirements:
Technical requirements:
We recommend using “Exchange” as account type / protocol. If you want to deviate from this recommendation and connect via IMAP, you can use the following data for setting up the connection:
IMAP (incoming mail server)
Protocol | IMAP |
Server | exchange.uni-mannheim.de |
Port | 993 |
Security type/ | SSL/ |
User name | Uni-ID |
Password | Password of your Uni-ID |
SMTP (outgoing mail server):
Server | exchange.uni-mannheim.de |
Port | 587 |
Security type/ | STARTTLS |
“Registration/ authentication required” | yes |
User name | Uni-ID |
Password | Password of your Uni-ID |
We guarantee a 99.9 percent service availability. However, we cannot exclude downtime in individual cases.
Should this be the case, please contact our support team via e-mail (itsupport@uni-mannheim.de) or telephone (+49 621 181–2000). We will help you as quickly as possible.
Spam and phishing
For information on how you can detect malicious e-mails and protect yourself against attackers,
please refer to our
security tips