Electronic Post Office (EPO)
When faculty, staff or students obtain a valid campus email account (Lotus Notes, MS or Sparky) they are assigned a generic EPO address. We recommend that you use this EPO address when you give your email address out to others and on your business cards.
Think of the EPO as a mail forwarding address. When an email is sent to your EPO address it will be forwarded to the MailBox specified in the Directory. By default, this MailBox is your campus email account (Lotus Notes, MS, Sparky or another valid Stony Brook University email account). If you have more than one Stony Brook University email account the default MailBox will be the account that was created first. You can specify which account you want your mail forwarded to by changing this MailBox entry in the Directory yourself.
To view your EPO entry go to the Directory at http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/peoplesearch.shtml
Enter your First Name and Last Name and click Search. Your entry looks like this:
Charles Smith
| Status: | Faculty |
| E-mail Address: | Charles.Smith@stonybrook.edu |
| MailBox: | csmith@notes.cc.sunysb.edu |
| Department: | Client Support |
| Campus Address: | S-5410 Melville Library, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3382 |
| Phone: | 631-632-9800 |
In the example above the generic EPO email address is Charles.Smith@stonybrook.edu. Email sent to this address will be forwarded to the MailBox specified in the Directory - in the example above this is Charles Smith's Lotus Notes account - csmith@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
If you do not have a MailBox specified then you should not give out your EPO address.
You may change the MailBox specified in the Directory at any time. This MailBox entry must be a valid Stony Brook University email account. It cannot be an external email account (i.e. your Yahoo or Hotmail account).