Introduction to Student Computing Using electronic mail with Webmail Electronic mail, or email for short, is the most popular computer application in the world, and it is widely used by UIC students, faculty and staff.
Email provides a fast and effective means of communications.
Instructors use it in their classes to keep students updated on assignments, events, as well as to answer questions and to disseminate information quickly and easily. Besides class work, email is widely used to communicate with acquaintances both on and off campus. At UIC, students typically receive their email on Icarus, while faculty and staff get it on Tigger or Mailserv. The whole email system is what determines one's email address. The domain name alias uic.edu gets resolved into the actual name of the computer hosting the mailbox, such as icarus.uic.edu, tigger.uic.edu or mailserv.uic.edu, for example.