Email working for new students (1 Viewer)

[= Jennifer =]

just thought to let all you first years know

 

[IP_freely]

is there a way of where u can transfer ur emails from ur uws account to ur hotmail 1?
ie when sum1 sends u an email to ur uws 1 it goes directly into ur hotmail account

i was told that u could do this by a few students at acprep but i cant seem to find the option

 

[Cape]

Yes you can. Here are the instructions:
- Open webmail
- Click user preferences - second on the left
- Towards the top theres a reply to rectangle, write your email in there.
- Towards the bottom theres a forward email to rectangle, again write you email in there.
- Click the save button down the bottom.

And bingo your uws email account is wired to your hotmail acount

 

[Annegelic]

hah... mine was working a couple weeks ago.

 

[Dumdida]

ok im just mucking around with the student mail thing and ive noticed that you have 3 email names eg;
studentnumber@scholar.uws.edu.au
studentnumber@studentmail.uws.edu.au
alias@studentmail.uws.edu.au....
can u also use alias@scholar.uws.edu.au and we can use all of these right? i mean when somebody sends an email to me they can send one to all of them?

 

[Cape]

Oh my ... we have 3 email addresses usually they only send stuff to the studentnumber@studentmail.uws.edu.au one.

 

[Jacks]

I think all mail sent to either of the three e-mail addresses end up in the one inbox...so not to worry cape, the alias is usually a way of contacting the person without knowing their student number...for example using their name instead.

 

[expensive_taste]

haha coolness.. mine works...!!
can we use this email for personal use as well? or just for uni?

 

[Cape]

You can use it for personnal use, eg, I used it to get an ebay account :uhhuh: hehe, but usually its just a form of communication between students and lecturers and also students to students.

 

[expensive_taste]

ohh ok..
so what is this about having 3 different types of names for emailz??

 

[Cape]

I have no idea. Never heard of it until i read the above posts.

 

[Dumdida]

k i done this, i sent myself(hotmail account) an email from uws account. i checked it and it says studentnumber@scholar.uws.edu.au
i got an email from dis lady at acprep and i saw dat she has sent it to my studentnumber@studentmail.uws.edu.au one, and then i found out about the alias thingy and it just sends it to the studentnumber@student mail one. So, they are sent to the studentnumber@studentmail one but when u send a mail it shows studentnumber@scholar and someone can send something to all three emails.

 

[Cape]

Omgosh! That was so confusing! lol.

Maybe scholar means people like lecturers or something and studentmail is everyone else. I think that they are all the same thing. but all emails should be going to the studentmail one.

 

[JAZZAY]

hmmmm.....my email isnt working. It keeps telling me wrong password. Are we supposed to use the password we made up (to access platform web) or our birthday password (which we use to access webct)?

 

[Dumdida]

platformweb is ur birthday eg 13071987 i just found that out too, for student mail its the one u made up for uwsaccount thing

 

[Jacks]

yep, for your student mail you use the same password that you use to access platform web, so whatever you came up with is what you use...just keep trying maybe they haven't set up everyone's accounts properly yet