I have the same [or similar] name as another individual at Vanderbilt. How can email senders differentiate between us?
You can help senders avoid confusion by adding the name of your department (or other identifying information) to your directory information in the Global Address Listing. To do so, log into the Modify Your Personal Options pages. In the First Name field beneath Preferred version of your personal name published in VUdirectory: enter your first name and then, in parenthesis, your department. Example: John (Accounting). Be sure to add parenthesis to the identifying information. When staff members search the Global Address List, the identifying information will help them differentiate your name from similar ones. The Global Address Listing is only accessible to Vanderbilt email users. If you get misdirected mail from an off-campus sender, inform the sender that you received the mail instead of the intended recipient and ask them to double-check the email address.
