How To Access Your MyLife Email Account

If you're a Unisa student or you're going to be one, your myLife email account will play a vital role in your higher education years. Here's how to access it.

Accessing your myLife e-mail account

Due to a recent Microsoft update, you will no longer be able to directly access your myLife e-mail account when logged in to myUnisa.

New procedure to access your myLife e-mail account

• To access your myLife e-mail account, please follow these steps:Go to the http://mylife.unisa.ac.za/
• Enter your full e-mail address (eg xxxxxxxx@mylife.unisa.ac.za) and your password for your myLife e-mail account.
• Select "Sign in".

If you're a Unisa student or you're going to be one, your myLife email account will play a vital role in your higher education years. Here's how to access it.

Every registered Unisa student receives a free myLife e-mail account for life. All you have to do is activate it. Once students have registered for myUnisa, they can then access their myLife email account, where vital information is regularly communicated.

What to do if your password is not active on myLife / O365?

It may be necessary to reset your myUnisa password to synchronise it with your myLife mailbox.Login to myUnisa and click on "My Admin".

• Click on the "Change Password" link.
• Complete the form to update your password. Please note that this new password will be active for both your myUnisa and myLife services.

Important information

During peak periods, it may take approximately 30 minutes for the new password to activate on the myLife service. If you are still experiencing problems after resetting your password, please send an e-mail to MyLifeHelp@unisa.ac.za for assistance.

Your myLife e-mail account is the only e-mail account recognised by Unisa for official correspondence to and from the university.

Before you do anything, you need to claim your myUnisa account if you haven't already done so. Go to the myUnisa website and click on "Claim Unisa login". Follow the steps carefully.

• How To Access MyLife Email AccountGo to http://mylife.unisa.ac.za/login or click on the myLife email option on the login page. The page will direct you to Microsoft outlook.
• Enter your UNISA email provided in step 6 and UNISA mylife password.

Then click 'Sign in'.

Students are advised to log out of their myUnisa email account when they are done using it when accessing it through a public computer or device.

You can access your myLife e-mail account from any network and anywhere in the world. You just need internet access.

To learn more about your myUnisa account, click here.