Is there a easy and fast way for a user to probe what mail addresses are
available? So far I've used the method of asking the help desk about a
single email address, this was not hard to do, but took a few hours for
a response (which was negative). I see a scaling issue...
Thanks,
Tom
John Callaghan wrote:
> Gene Willacker wrote:
>> On 5-06-2008 4:39 PM, Matt Kolb wrote:
>>> Oscar,
>>>
>>> For e-mail purposes your netid is just a pointer to your account.
>>> You can have many pointers to your account. I for example, have
>>> three (mk, muk, and kolbmatt). I can only login with mk, but I get
>>> mail to any of those three. The handles stick around forever until
>>> you ask us to remove them.
>>>
>>> ./mk
>> Matt:
>>
>> Is this different from what happens when a staff member has a legal
>> name change and requests that her NetID be changed to reflect that?
>> That is, does the pointer from the old NetID remain active in this case?
>>
>> Thanks, Gene
>>
>
> Regardless of what the reason for the name change, the process is the
> same. The email directories are named and organized by the account's
> UID which is an integer and typically does not change. The old records
> are left in the database, all with the same UID.
>
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