Current and Former Students

CSU San Marcos students and Alumni use Cougars Email, which is based on Google's Gmail system.

Cougars Email

You can find out more about Cougars Email at the FAQ page.

Faculty and Staff

Users of our Faculty/ Staff Exchange email service can access their email away from their primary computers. There are currently two methods for accessing webmail.

Starting in the Summer of 2012, our Faculty/ Staff email is moving to Exchange Online. Users will be notified in advance of being moved to the new system. These users will now use Exchange Online to access their email.

Copilot/ Outlook Web Access/ OWA

Exchange Online (New System)

Visit our Exchange Online FAQ page to learn more

Older email systems

Squirrelmail is used by those students not yet moved to Cougars Email, along with some of our faculty.

Squirrelmail (Webmail)


If you have any questions about Cougars Email, please send them to gmail-questions@csusm.edu.

For any other computing help, please feel free to contact the Help Desk at (760)750-6505 or via email at sth@csusm.edu.