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Friendly Email Address FAQ's
Friendly Email Address FAQ's
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.
What is a friendly email address?
A friendly email address is an alternate forwarding address. 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. Firstname.Lastname is the same as firstname.lastname).