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GUMail: E-Mail Routing and Delivery Options

Setting up your e-mail delivery
What's a primary delivery location?
Changing your primary delivery location
Delivering your e-mail to additional accounts
What does IMAP mean?
What about alumni?

Setting up your e-mail delivery
You will have to visit the Set Your E-mail Delivery Web page and choose a primary delivery location for your e-mail. You will not receive any mail sent to your @georgetown.edu address until you do this.

After you've set a primary delivery location, you may use the same online form to send copies of your incoming mail to any other accounts you might possess. (For example, you can have your mail sent to both your GUMail account and a Hotmail account.)

Mandatory Set your primary e-mail delivery location UIS strongly recommends that you use your GUMail account as your primary delivery location.

Optional Send copies of your e-mail to additional e-mail accounts Change your primary e-mail location

You can change your e-mail delivery settings as often you like. See How to Set Your @georgetown.edu E-mail Delivery for step-by-step instructions.

What's a primary delivery location?
Unlike most e-mail addresses, your @georgetown.edu e-mail address is not tied to a single account or system (instead, e-mail sent to your @georgetown.edu address can be delivered to as many different accounts as you wish.)

Although you can have e-mail delivered to as many accounts as you like, the Delivery Service needs you to designate one account as your primary delivery location

You must choose one account to be your primary delivery location. Then you must tell the Delivery Service which account you've chosen. If you don't tell the Delivery Service where to send your mail, your mail will go nowhere.

Changing your Primary Delivery Location
Before you change your primary e-mail delivery location, be aware that UIS strongly recommends using your GUMail account as your primary e-mail delivery location. It?s a good idea to have copies of your important mail on a UIS-supported system. UIS is committed to ensuring that GUMail is stable, secure, and available to everyone at Georgetown.

Delivering your e-mail to additional accounts
If you wish, you can have mail delivered to multiple accounts. Then, when someone sends a message to your @georgetown.edu address, it is automatically delivered to whatever account(s) you have specified. Every time a message is sent to your @georgetown.edu address, a separate, independent copy will be forwarded to each account.

You can change your delivery settings as often as you want, but UIS recommends that you continue to use GUMail as your primary e-mail delivery location, even if you have mail sent to another account as well. This way, copies of your messages will go to both accounts.

What does IMAP mean?
On the "Set Your E-Mail Delivery" form, you may notice that your e-mail address is listed as @imap.georgetown.edu instead of @georgetown.edu.

IMAP, an acronym for Internet Mail Access Protocol, is an e-mail protocol that leaves your messages on the e-mail server (unlike another well-known e-mail protocol called "POP3", which downloads your e-mail messages to your computer from the e-mail server).

Leaving your messages on the server is very convenient since it means that you can retrieve them from anywhere in the world. When you are setting your delivery options, "IMAP" appears in the e-mail address so that the GUMail system will leave your e-mail messages on the server. People who send you e-mail should not include "IMAP" as part of your e-mail address.

What about alumni?
After Georgetown University students graduate and become alumni, they are entitled to keep their @georgetown.edu addresses for the rest of their lives.

After you graduate, you can change your e-mail routing settings through the e-mail forwarding section of the alumni Web site, hoyasonline.