What is an e-mail alias?
What is a username?
Why are we allowing e-mail aliases?
How many aliases can I have?
How do I create an e-mail alias?
- Your official e-mail address is your username@calvin.edu. For example, John C. Calvin's e-mail address following the new username convention is jcc2@calvin.edu.
- Every faculty and staff who has a Calvin e-mail account can pick his or her third e-mail alias.
For example John C. Calvin could pick knights@calvin.edu. - Every faculty and staff who has a Calvin e-mail account is given an e-mail alias that is their first name followed by a period, and their last name. (Note: The middle initial is used when necessary to resolve name conflict.)
For example John C. Calvin has an e-mail alias of john.calvin@calvin.edu.
Calvin automatically forwards any e-mail using your alias to your official Calvin e-mail box. Setting an e-mail alias does not change your username.
Each Calvin faculty, staff, and student is given a username. The username is what you use each time you login to a Calvin system.
Why are we allowing e-mail aliases?
The e-mail alias that you select allows you to use a more personal name for e-mail. You can put it on your business cards or give them to friends or business contacts. Calvin automatically routes any e-mail using your e-mail alias to your official Calvin mailbox.
How many aliases may I select?
You may select one e-mail alias. You may change that alias at any time but if you change your alias you will be giving up the alias that you previously set.
How do I create an e-mail alias?
You can create your e-mail alias in KnightVision by going to the Services tab and selecting Change Alias under Passwords and Aliases
You may not choose an alias that:
- is currently in use by someone else
- includes the word Calvin or any Calvin department name
- includes inappropriate language
- is less than 5 or more than 30 characters in length
