What is e-mail forwarding?
E-mail forwarding is not an E-mail account as it does not store messages for you to read and reply to. Rather it forwards mail, sent to your lifetime McMaster mail address, to your current personal E-mail account where you do read and reply to messages. What is my E-mail forwarding address? Your address will be in the form of smithj@mcmaster.ca. What is an E-mail alias? Beginning in February 2003, Mac grads will be able to select their own E-mail address instead of being assigned a McMaster address. To sign up for the service, please visit our E-mail Alias web page. Why sign up for the service? A lifetime E-mail forwarding account allows you to provide friends and family with one E-mail address for life. No matter how many times you change jobs, ISPs and E-mail addresses, they will always be able to reach you through your McMaster address.
E-mail forwarding is an option for all alumni e-mail accounts. It means messages sent to a certain e-mail address are forwarded to another address. For example: Someone sends an e-mail to your_username@alumni.uwosh.edu. The message is forwarded immediately to you@your-ISP.com. As long as you keep your forwarding e-mail address up-to-date, people can always e-mail you at your @alumni.uwosh.edu address.
• E-mail forwarding allows you to have all e-mail sent to your domain to be forwarded to a private e-mail address that you specify. For example, mail sent to anything@customerdomain.com, could be configured to go to:customermail@hotmail.com. To do this, we set up your MX Record to point to one of our mail servers, then configure the server to forward mail to your account. The cost for this is 1 US dollar per domain per year.
A1: E-mail forwarding allows you to forward e-mail to any other account you choose and gives you a “portable” address that you can use with family, friends and colleagues. This new forwarding service allows you to keep your familiar St. Edward’s University e-mail address. In turn, our forwarding service allows you to distribute your St. Edward’s e-mail address and avoids the need for friends and family to keep up with multiple addresses as you move, change employers or e-mail accounts.
