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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. >