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Email and Calendars

This section contains common articles related to VTCRI email and calendaring.

  • Accessing your FBRI Email

    If you are FBRI faculty, staff, or a student that has been given a mailbox within our system, vs. a forwarding address, you can access your mailbox in several different and simultaneous ways: Desktop ...

  • Accessing Virginia Tech (non-FBRI) Email

    Virginia Tech provides all faculty, staff, and students email accounts.  To learn how to access and interact with your Virginia Tech (@vt.edu) email account, click here.  Why do I have two email addre...

  • LATEST PHISHING EMAILS

    Below are the latest phishing emails circulating the FBRI / VT campus mail systems.  If you receive a message similar to those below, do not reply, do not click on any URLs, and delete the message.   ...

  • Sending Encrypted Emails

    Email encryption provides an additional layer of security when sending an email. Email encryption is available to anyone with an FBRI email account. Email encryption converts the message and any attac...

  • Receiving / Reading an Encrypted Email

    If you have received an encrypted email from someone at the FBRI, you can use the instructions below to receive and read it.   1. If you have received an encrypted message from someone at the FBRI, th...

  • How To Send a Meeting Invitation and BCC Attendees

    Normally, you can Bcc (blind carbon copy) an email to recipients easily by adding the recipient email addresses into the Bcc filed in Outlook. However, there is no Bcc field in the meeting or appointm...

  • Add an Internet (Google) Calendar to Outlook for Mac (OS X)

    Outlook for Mac currently does not support adding an Internet calendar, however, there is a workaround to have one show up: Login in https://webmail.vtc.vt.edu using your FBRI credentials.  Select the...

  • How to view the members of an email group / distribution list

    If you wish to see the members of an email distribution list within the FBRI email system, do the following:  WINDOWS (see below for Mac / OSX): In order to see the members of a group or distribution ...

  • Using a Shared Mailbox and Calendar (Windows)

    This article will give you some basic steps to send from, receive mail, and  to use the calendar in a shared mailbox.   Send mail from a shared mailbox Open Outlook. Choose New Email. If you don't see...

  • Always Show the BCC Field in Outlook

    Always Show The Bcc Field In Outlook To always show the Bcc field in the new, replying, and forwarding email message windows in Outlook. 1. In the Mail view, please click Home > New Email to create a ...