Your ECU Email Account – Student email accounts are created automatically when students are accepted into the University. Information about your ECU email account is included with your letter of admission to the University. Your email Userid is made up of your initials and your birth date. Your initial password is $E followed by the last six digits of your social security number until you change it.
For example:
Name: John Q. Doe ECU Userid: jqd0306
Birth Date: March 6 ECU Password: $E654321
Social Security #: 987-65-4321
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Access ECU Email
Your Internet Email Address is in the following form: Userid@mail.ecu.edu. Using the previous example, John’s email address would be jqd0306@mail.ecu.edu. To access your email account via the Web, go to www.piratemail.ecu.edu and enter your Userid and password where requested.
Your ECU email account is your official email account when contacting anyone at the University. This is the account you will use when corresponding with your course instructor, DCS, or other departments at ECU. Each semester we will send important information to you utilizing this email address.
Take this opportunity to contact your advisor to introduce yourself and discuss registration.
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