Updating your Email Username

For those who have received notification that they must change their UNI email username 8:00am Tuesday, October 26, 2004:

WINDOWS
Outlook
Start email program.
From the menu bar across the top select Tools -> E-mail Accounts…
View or change existing e-mail accounts -> Next
Select appropriate e-mail account (usually named mail.uni.edu) -> Change…
Under Logon Information is the User Name: field
Change this from your old user name to the user name sent to you in the ITS email -> Next
Click Finish

Outlook Express (PC)
Start email program.
From the menu bar across the top select Tools -> Accounts…
Select appropriate e-mail account (usually named mail.uni.edu) -> Properties
Select Servers tab
Under Incoming Mail Server is the Account name: field
Change this from your old user name to the user name sent to you in the ITS email -> OK
Click Close


Thunderbird (PC)
Start email program.
From the menu bar across the top select Tools -> Account Settings…
There is a “tree” along the left side of this window
Under the appropriate e-mail account name (usually named mail.uni.edu)
Click on Server Settings
Under Server Settings is the User Name: field
Change this from your old user name to the user name sent to you in the ITS email -> OK


MACINTOSH
Mac Mail
Start email program.
From the menu bar across the top select Mail -> Preferences…
Select the Accounts tab
In the middle of that window is the User Name: field
Change this from your old user name to the user name sent to you in the ITS email.
Click on the red button in the upper left corner to close out of preferences.
When prompted to save changes, click Save.

Entourage
Start email program.
From the menu bar across the top select Tools -> Accounts
Select appropriate e-mail account (usually named mail.uni.edu) -> Edit
On the Account Settings tab under Receiving Mail is the Account ID: field
Change this from your old user name to the user name sent to you in the ITS email -> OK
Click on the red button in the upper left corner to close out of Accounts.

Mac Thunderbird
Start email program.
From the menu bar across the top select Tools -> Account Settings…
There is a “tree” along the left side of this window
Under the appropriate e-mail account name (usually named mail.uni.edu)
Click on Server Settings
Near the top of this window is the User Name: field
Change this from your old user name to the user name sent to you in the ITS email -> OK
You will the receive a message that states: “You User Name has been updated. You may also need to update your Email Address and/or User Name associated with this account.”
Click OK

Netscape
For those still using Netscape, please contact us so we may update your email client.

The following note is ONLY for those few users who may use their short username as their email address rather than the (long) firstname.lastname alias. Using Bugs Bunny as an example:
The username would be bunny, but the email address alias would be Bugs.Bunny@uni.edu. Email can be received at either bunny@uni.edu (sometimes called the “short email address”) or the (long) email address alias. Nearly all users are set up to use the long email address alias. If you are one of the few setup to receive email at your “short email address”, please read on.

Changing the email address associated with this account is only necessary if you do not user the firstname.lastname@uni.edu alias as your email address. If you use the username that was being changed above as your email address, you will need to change the Email Address: (or similarly named) field to reflect the new username. This field is always found in the same location as the user name except in Thunderbird and Outlook. In Thunderbird, it is found at the top of the “tree” of the appropriate account. In Outlook, it is found on the General tab. HOWEVER, the firstname.lastname alias will still work and remain unchanged.

Information posted by Kimberly Scott, 10/25/2004 5:29:11 PM.