Missing UFV Email? Check Junk Folders

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Check your junk or spam email folder for important UFV information, such as your UFV admissions acceptance or UFV computer account setup details.

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If you are expecting emails from UFV Admissions or IT Services but haven't received them, your personal email may have filtered them into your junk or spam mail folder.

Below are some tips on how to find and search your junk or spam folders search so you can retrieve these important emails.

As everyone has the ability to customize their email features, your email folder setup may be different.

Gmail

1. On your computer, open your Gmail web application.

2. In  Search mail at the top of the page, click the symbol on the right side.

Search box for Gmail

3. Click in the Search option to see its drop-down menu, and then choose to filter by Mail & Spam & Trash.

Menu option for Spam and Trash.

4. In the field Has the words, type in your search phrase using quotes, i.e. "Welcome email".

5. In the field Date within, clear any dates.

6. At the bottom, click the Search button to view your results.

Search menu in Gmail

Note: If you are using the Gmail mobile app, you may need to click the three bars () in the upper-left corner to open the main navigation menu. To expand the left menu, click More and then your Spam folder should be visible.

Click three bars to open the main menu.

Outlook / Hotmail 

1. On your computer, open your Outlook / Hotmail web application.

2. Open the folder pane (if not visible, go to the View tab, and change to Show).

3. Click on the Junk Email folder on the left side as it will now search in Junk Email folder.

4. Type in your search phrase using quotes, i.e. "Welcome email".

Search Junk Email folder

Search Apple Mail app 

1. Click the Mail app to open to your Inbox on your iPhone.

2. Tap the back arrow in top left corner until you see all your mailboxes under Mailboxes.

Click back arrow to go to main Mailbox area

3. If you have more than one mailbox, repeat the steps below for each mailbox.

a. Click on a mailbox to open and expand the folders.

Click mailbox to open its list of folders

b. Scroll down to find the Junk folder and tap on it to open it and look for your email.

Click on the Junk folder to see its emails

c. If you find an email that does note belong in the Junk folder, click the edit button, select it and move it to your inbox.

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Article ID: 9930
Created
Fri 5/31/24 2:08 PM
Modified
Wed 4/16/25 4:58 PM

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