Every student, faculty, and staff member at The University of Iowa is provided an e-mail “alias”, which is usually some form of “firstname-lastname@uiowa.edu”. Students, faculty, and staff are also eligible for a Hawkmail e-mail account. What’s the difference? Your e-mail alias is just a “pointer” to your real e-mail account. That account could be Hawkmail, or it could be another e-mail account like Gmail, AOL, etc.
Beginning November 9, 2009, if you have a University Hawkmail account and choose to “point” or forward your University alias to another e-mail account, your Hawkmail account will automatically be closed, to prevent you from missing important emails and ensure that all email is forwarded to your non-Hawkmail account. Click here for more information about email aliases and routing addresses.
