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WatIAM provides an email forwarding service (not an actual email account).
Email sent to your uwuserid@uwaterloo.ca is forwarded to the email account that you specify in the WatIAM email field.
Official email correspondence will be addressed to UW userids, so it is important that the WatIAM email field is completed and directs mail to a reliable location.
It is recommended that you put your on-campus email address in WatIAM and check mail regularly on that account.
Email forwarding is affected by your choice regarding publishing of your information in WatIAM (see the next section).
Mail sent through the WatIAM forwarding services is processed to remove spam, viruses and executable attachments. There is also a 10 MB size limit on messages sent through the forwarding service.
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