Accessing the mailbox via a browser

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What you need to know

After receiving their HFU account, students, professors and other employees have access to the university's email portal at the following address:
External link opens in a new window:mailbox.hs-furtwangen.de.

If you have not yet received your HFU account, you can find out where and how to get it on the  Internal link opens in the same window:HFU-Account service information page.

The following instructions describe how to log into the email inbox via the browser.

What you have to do

  1. Open a browser of your choice (e.g. Edge, Google Chrome, Safari, etc.) and go to the following address: External link opens in a new window:mailbox.hs-furtwangen.de

    • If you are not yet logged in with your HFU account, you will be taken to the two-factor authentication.

  2. Enter the required authentication code using your Authenticator app.

    • You will be redirected to the Outlook login screen (see Fig. 2.1).

  3. Now enter your HFU login name (e-mail address) and your current password and confirm your entries by clicking on “Login”.

    • Login for students: xyz46005@stud.hs-furtwangen.de (see Fig. 3.1).
      Login employees and professors: xyz1234@hs-furtwangen.de

    • Once you have successfully logged in, you will be taken to your inbox where you can write* and receive emails (see Fig. 3.2).

    • *Please note that as a student you cannot send emails to HFU employees or professors via your mailbox until 18 April.

  4. Note: If you receive a warning message “Your password expires today”, you can just ignore it – you do not need to change your password. If you want to change your password, please follow the instructions “Change password for the HFU account".

    • If you have changed the password anyway, please give the system at least 20 minutes to synchronize the systems.

Problems or questions?