What does email address mean?

Jamesino · 04-24-2009, 08:05 PM

If my email address is

jjm2@cornell.edu

does that mean that I am the second person with initials JJM in the history of Cornell?

Also, do I keep my cornell email address forever even after i graduated?

countryangel926 · 04-24-2009, 08:08 PM

I was kind of wondering the same thing...mine is apb78. I was hoping that it would be something more professional, like firstname.lastname@cornell.edu

collegehopefull · 04-24-2009, 08:09 PM

Nope - it's random. I know this because I asked someone at CIT.
They told me to go to the Cornell directory and start searching by playing with the numbers. You'll find a lot of "search returned 0 results" coming up.

There is a way for undergraduates to get the tenured professor alias thing.

Where your email will read yourname.surname@cornell.edu.

Either way, there's the C-mail dealie they're doing now. I think that'll replace their squirrelmail/kerberos nonsense.

hilariousimlolin · 04-24-2009, 08:10 PM

awww we dont get to choose it?? oh that sucks. i wanted something like lastname.firstname too. oh well.

collegehopefull · 04-24-2009, 08:17 PM

Yeah, it's sort of weird.

Then again, Cornell has a MASSIVE number of people to assign university emails to...it's alright.

I'll probably only have my webmail address for another few months...(after only 2 years....*sob*), but I'm gonna do the C-mail switch anyway, just to see.

countryangel926 · 04-24-2009, 08:18 PM

Quote:

There is a way for undergraduates to get the tenured professor alias thing.

Where your email will read yourname.surname@cornell.edu.

Either way, there's the C-mail dealie they're doing now. I think that'll replace their squirrelmail/kerberos nonsense.

What is the "C-mail dealie"? xD

collegehopefull · 04-24-2009, 08:27 PM

CIT: Cmail

^ Esta.

It's a good thing too.....the Webmail page...welll....https://cuweblogin.cit.cornell.edu/c...stMsg=&AltUrl=

as you can see...(and if you were to login you could see better)...it's a little...'oldish' looking.

C-mail looks like a much better alternative.

countryangel926 · 04-24-2009, 08:32 PM

Ohhh, sorry, I misunderstood. I've already set up my C-mail account, and being a Gmail user already, I love how everything is organized. I guess I thought that Cornell was working on some sort of new program that would allow students to choose the yourname.surname@cornell.edu address.

roneald · 04-24-2009, 08:39 PM

Wait is there a way to get the yourname.surname@cornell.edu email?

collegehopefull · 04-24-2009, 08:42 PM

That's called Cornell's optional Email Alias.

The website says it's only for people with 'academic appointment' but this one girl I know has a bf in CIT....and she has an alias email as an undergrad.

If you google :Cornell webmail alias, you'll get on their site....notice there's a space for "requests" I think that's how they do it for undergrads. You'd need an 'in' though.

Otherwise it's just regular C-mail!
Which is pretty nice.

countryangel926 · 04-24-2009, 08:47 PM

Ahhh, gotcha. Thanks!

collegehopefull · 04-24-2009, 08:52 PM

Just a side note: There's a glass/cup from Robert Purcell floating around at Appel.

The first time I saw it was summer of 07. The last time I saw it was Monday.

It's a little bit bigger than all the other ones.