Email Change Dealines Revisited

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Media Release - For Immediate Release

October 5 2010

Email Change Deadlines Revisited

Saint Mary’s University is phasing out the use of its smu.ca email addresses for students and alumni, but many users have expressed concern about the short notice given for change.

As a result of the feedback, changes have been made and the process of phasing out the system has been slowed down.

Here’s what the change means for you:

Undergraduate Students who don’t have a smu.ca address yet will not be receiving a smu.ca email account as part of their student computer services. Instead, they’ll need to provide another email address they’d like to use to receive communication from Saint Mary’s. Any active email address will work.

Graduate Students will receive a smu.ca address but have the option of providing an alternate preferred email address.

Students with a smu.ca address will be able to keep it through graduation. They will still be prompted for a preferred email address which can be a smu.ca or external address. The final deadline for undergraduate email services is October 2015.

Students who have already replaced their smu.ca address will receive all communications on their preferred email account. Students who have switched over but now wish to continue using their smu.ca email need only identify as their preferred email through Activate or on Banner Self-service.

Students who want to switch from their smu.ca account can provide their preferred email through Activate or Banner Self-service.

Alumni with a smu.ca email account from their days as a student will have one year to choose another email address they’d like to use to receive communication from Saint Mary’s. Their existing smu.ca address will be discontinued in October 2011. Alumni can make the change to a home or work address any time in the next year on the Alumni home page.

Staff and faculty will be keeping their smu.ca email addresses.

To update your account and tell us the email address you’d like Saint Mary’s to use from now on, visit: https://activate.smu.ca (You’ll need your Banner PIN and ID to make the change.)