Mentor Mail

Subscribers to Mentor Mail receive all of the messages that other subscribers send and can reply to those messages or post messages of their own.  I-Promise staff will assist with moderating Mentor Mail conversations and share timely reminders, trending questions or concerns, relevant articles or other information. Though participation is voluntary, all active I-Promise mentors are encouraged to subscribe. 

Mentor Mail is designed to serve as an online forum for dialogue and discussion; general program announcements will continue to be made to all mentors (including non-subscribers) via standard email platforms. 

To begin receiving Mentor Mail messages, email lists@lists.illinois.edu with subject line “subscribe ipmentors”. Leave the message body blank, with the command in the subject.  If you are subscribing from a non-university email account, please also include your first and last name in the subject line (i.e. subscribe ipmentors Sarah Watson). You will receive a confirmation message once your subscription request has been approved.

In addition to sending email commands for subscribe and unsubscribe, you can also manage your subscriptions and view archived messages by logging in at https://lists.illinois.edu/lists.  

From your email client or a webmail, simply send a message to ipmentors@lists.illinois.edu. Please note: your messages should be sent from the address with which you subscribed to the list, otherwise, your message might be rejected.

You may hit reply and respond to a message, the same as you would send any other email response.  Keep in mind that replies sent in this way will be received by the entire subscriber list. If you wish to response to a message privately, you must enter the sender’s information in the appropriate field in your email client rather than hitting reply and sending to ipmentors@lists.illinois.edu.   

Attachments are permitted but the max message size is 10MB including message header, text, and subject line.

To leave the group, email lists@lists.illinois.edu with subject line “signoff ipmentors”. In addition to sending email commands for subscribe and unsubscribe, you can also manage your subscriptions and view archived messages by logging in at https://lists.illinois.edu/lists.  

Sending messages to the Mentor Mail list makes you liable as an author. To use the mailing list service within the law and share pleasant and respectful exchanges, please respect the guidelines below.

Privacy

• All messages sent to the list are kept in the list archive. Thus, the simple fact of sending a message constitutes an express authorization of distribution and reproduction in the archive.
• If you send a message to the list, your email address will display in your message header and in the list archive. 
• You must sign your messages. 
• Do not disclose specific information that would allow others to identify your student mentee.
• Never send information about other people without their express agreement.

Good practices

• Please post or reply to the entire mailing list only when the information has the potential to be relevant or useful for the large audience; all other messages should be sent privately.
• Always use descriptive subjects for your messages. 
• Please refrain from sharing advertisements or commercial messages or political or religious messages.
• Unconstructive and mean-spirited messages (example: remarks about spelling mistakes) and other personal attacks towards other contributors are not welcome on the list.
• If you share attachments, please remain reasonable: too many or too large attachments may disturb the other subscribers, for example by flooding their inboxes.