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GUMail: How to Set Your E-Mail Delivery Options

Setting your Primary E-Mail Location to GUMail
Directing your e-mail to a Primary Delivery Location other than GUMail
Sending copies of your e-mail to additional e-mail addresses
E-Mail routing for alumni

Setting Your Primary Delivery Location to GUMail (recommended)

  1. Go to the Set Your E-mail Delivery Web page.

  1. You will be prompted for your user name and password. Type your NetID in the User Name box, then type your NetID password in the Password box. Click the OK button.

  1. You will be logged in to the "Where Is My Mail Going?" e-mail routing Web page.

Note: If you have already set delivery addresses (or you are an incoming student) you will see your delivery address(es) listed under Goes To:, otherwise this column will be blank.

  1. Click on the Change Entry button.

  1. This will bring up the "Set Your E-Mail Routing" form.

  1. Under "Primary E-Mail Delivery Location", click the circle next to your @imap.georgetown.edu e-mail address.
 
  1. Click the Submit Changes button at the bottom of the Web page.

  1. Clicking the Submit Changes button will bring up a new window.

  1. Click the Change Complete. Click here to continue. button to finalize your changes.

  1. This will return you to the "Where Is My Mail Going?" Web page, where you can see the changes you just made.
  1. If you need to modify these changes or add additional e-mail addresses, simply click the Change Entry button to go back to the "Set Your E-Mail Routing" form.
  1. Exit your Web browser to log out of the "Set Your E-Mail Routing" form.

Setting Your Primary Delivery Location to something other than GUMail (not recommended)

UIS strongly recommends that you use your GUMail account as your primary delivery location. If you are not sending mail to your GUMail account, you may not receive official Georgetown University e-mail.

  1. Follow steps 1-5 above.

  1. Under "Primary E-Mail Delivery Location", click the circle next to the blank box.
  1. After you see a black dot appear in the circle, type the e-mail address in the blank box.
 
  1. Click the Submit Changes button at the bottom of the Web page.

  1. Clicking the Submit Changes button will bring up a new window.

  1. Click the Change Complete. Click here to continue. button to finalize your changes.

  1. This will return you to the "Where Is My Mail Going?" Web page, where you can see the changes you just made.
  1. If you need to modify these changes or add additional e-mail addresses, simply click the Change Entry button to go back to the "Set Your E-Mail Routing" form.
  1. Exit your Web browser to log out of the "Set Your E-Mail Routing" form.

Copying Your E-mail to Additional E-mail Addresses

  1. Follow steps 1-5 above.

  1. Under "Additional E-Mail Delivery Location", type the e-mail address in the blank box.

 
 
  1. Click the Submit Changes button at the bottom of the Web page.

  1. Clicking the Submit Changes button will bring up a new window.

  1. Click the Change Complete. Click here to continue. button to finalize your changes.

  1. This will return you to the "Where Is My Mail Going?" Web page, where you can see the changes you just made.
  1. If you need to modify these changes or add additional e-mail addresses, simply click the Change Entry button to go back to the "Set Your E-Mail Routing" form.
  1. Exit your Web browser to log out of the "Set Your E-Mail Routing" form.

E-Mail Routing for 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.
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