A friendly email address is typically used because is it easy to remember. The friendly email address is implemented in WatIAM, the campus Identity and Access Management system. This is where both your friendly email address and your delivery address are set.
Note: In technical terms, for those that are interested, you would be setting the “mail” attribute of uwldap to your friendly email address and the “mailRoutingAddress” attribute of uwldap to your delivery address.
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A friendly email address is an alternate forwarding address that is apart of your UWaterloo identity. Using a friendly email address can better identify who an email is being sent to and who it is from. Friendly emails are not case sensitive (e.g. JaneFirstname.Doe Lastname is the same as janefirstname.doelastname).
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Creating a friendly email is optional however all individuals are provided with a fixed set of choices from friendly email address, based on your name, familiar name, initials, and surname. If you choose a friendly address, the old long/short username options @uwaterloo.ca (which is all we have now) continue to work. |
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In exceptional circumstances, a WatIAM administrator can recover the email address. For support with this, contact the IST Service Desk.
Instructions to create a friendly email address
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Sign into WatIAM using your 8-character UWaterloo username (e.g. j25rober) and your password
On the WatIAM homepage, select Update Chosen/Preferred Name.
You can change choose your "preferred name" to whatever you would like as shown below:
Select Submit to save your “Preferred Name”.
Next, select Manage Email Settings
Select your friendly email address, and select Submit.
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Anyone who uses an IMAP client program to a Unix hosted email server will set their own “From:” address. Outlook users who use the Connect system will get the value filled in automatically for them. Outlook users on other systems will still need to set the From: address somewhere.
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