Anyone else's Intranet portal updated yet?

Oh...mine works without exmail! Maybe I'm just special?

Oh...mine works without exmail! Maybe I'm just special?

This is probably going to be in much more detail than you'll need... but here goes anyway!


The exmail one is technically your actual email address - the one without exmail just forwards it there. If you're priveleged enough to have another email address administered by the university (eg computer science students will be given a separate email, administered by the CS department) you can reconfigure your non-exmail address to forward to that, instead.


So, for example, say your username was psycasd, your 'mask' email address would be [email protected], and by default, anything sent to this address would be sent on to [email protected].

If you were a computer science student, you'd have a computer science email account, something along the lines of [email protected], which you'd access at https://webmail.cs.nott.ac.uk. If you configured your 'mask' email address to point to this, then all your mail would go to the one account.

Stuff that gets sent to the exmail address will still go to the account accessed at http://owa.nottingham.ac.uk regardless.


So, probably, for the average user, to all intents and purposes they're interchangeable, but most people miss off the exmail bit cos it's shorter.

Ah...interesting.

BTW If you subscribe to your nottingham calendar and contacts as IMAP folders (using thunderbird for example) then is there anyway of parsing the information better than them appearing as emails?