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What is MetNet?

How do I Get Started?

Initializing Your Account

How do I Send and Receive Messages?

Important—Clean out Emails!

How do I Delete, Forward, Reply and Send Attachments?

What is MetNet?

Login to MetNet and initiate your email account

MetNet is a student email system that is used by Anoka-Ramsey Community College (ARCC) to communicate with you. You will receive messages about class cancellations, assignments, registration dates, payment deadlines, etc.

How do I Get Started?

It is your responsibility to initialize your account, read and respond to critical email notices from the college. ARCC will send email announcements only to your ARCC-assigned email account.

Within about 24-hours after you register for classes, you will be assigned a free MetNet email account.

Initializing Your Account

1. Go to www.metnet.edu/initiate
   
   
2. Click Initiate Account in Step #1
   
   
3. Agree to policies and guidelines
   
   
4. Enter your eight-digit Student ID number (Tech ID), Choose College, set your Password and click Submit
   
   
5. You will be issued a MetNet Username (first four letters of your last name followed by a randomly assigned four-digit number) and email account information will be displayed on the following page
   
   
6. Your email address will be your MetNet username followed by @metnet.edu
   

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How do I Send and Receive Messages?

1. Login to your email account at www.metnet.edu/email (If you are at an ARCC computer, simply click on the METNET WEBMAIL icon on the desktop)
   
   
2. New Mail is highlighted in yellow, with all text bold and underlined—click anywhere within the yellow highlight to read message
   
   
3. To view Previously-Read Mail, click From, Date, Subject or anywhere on the white space
   
   
4. To Send Mail, click Write a New Message
   
   
5. Complete the To, Subject and Message sections—the text editor supports standard Edit/Cut/Copy/Paste functions
   
   
6. Click Send This Message (two locations: upper left panel or directly below the message field)

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Important—Clean out Emails!

METNET accounts have a 50mb limit which includes in-box and folders. Once an account exceeds the limit, the account goes into a suspended state where the owner cannot access it. To avoid this from happening to you, please keep your email account clean by deleting emails you no longer need.

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How do I Delete, Forward, Reply and Send Attachments?

Delete Mail

1. Click Check Box to the left of the message and select Delete Checked
   
   
2. Click Permanently Remove all Deleted Messages

Forward Mail

1. Click the message you would like to send and click Forward
   
   
2. A new Write Message window opens containing the original message
   
   
3. Enter Recipient's Email Address in the To: field

Reply to Sender

1. Click Reply to Sender
   
   
2. A new Write Message window opens containing the original message
   
   
3. The sender's email address will appear in the To: field
   
   
4. The Subject field begins with Re: and repeats the original subject line
   
   
5. Enter your reply and click Send

Attachments

1. Click Browse to navigate to the file you would like to attach to the message
   
   
2. Select the file and click Open
   
   
3. Click Attach

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