<p>So i got my ID that works for logging onto eBear/getting on Barnard email, etc…but every time I try to log onto the Columbia UNI system(uni.columbia.edu) i get ‘access denied’. I got a password before that was a long string of letters/numbers that I used to originally log on to eBear that I then changed. Shouldn’t this new password work for the Columbia UNI? Or is there a whole new pasword? This is kinda confusing for me…I don’t remember how i originally obtained everything since I found my ID through the Columbia directory in order to join the facebook network. If anyone could help me, I would appreciate it. Thank you.</p>
<p>You need to register your Columbia UNI separately. </p>
<p>Click 'Activate a NEW UNI Account' and go from there. (: The password is whatever you want it to be.</p>
<p>guys how do you get your columbia UNI? every time i type in my name to obtain it, it saids i first have to log in, but to do so I need the uni! help...</p>
<p>hey guys nvm i figured it out haha, i guess my question now is, do barnard students use their barnard email or columbia email more? like which email address do they give out regularly?</p>
<p>LOL, my daughter doesn't use either except for receiving on campus mail. The ebear system was just too cumbersome for her -- so she uses gmail.</p>
<p>even though i'm new to the eBear system, it seems unnecessarily complicated and i'll probably stick with gmail too.</p>
<p>I might try to configure my Barnard address to Microsoft Outlook or something, because the eBear interface stinks.</p>
<p>You can set up your barnard and columbia emails to forward to your gmail or whatever other interface you use...I expect professors will probably use those emails for class announcements, that's what they did at my previous college, so although I agree that the interface isn't great for use as a primary email you probably should make sure that you still get things that might be sent there!</p>
<p>so when a prof. or anyone sends an email to my barnard email, it will also be sent to my columbia email? they are the same right? or are they actually 2 seperate accounts that different stuff gets sent to, and we have to manage both.</p>
<p>They are separate I think- I sent a test email to my @barnard account and it wasn't in my columbia inbox, and I have facebook set up with my barnard account but none of the facebook notices that I get sent are in my columbia inbox. but I set up my @columbia.edu address to forward to my @barnard.edu address so that I don't have to check both.</p>
<p>Jello, if there is a way to get the barnard.edu email to forward to another email service, my daughter couldn't figure out how to do it -- I did spend some time a year ago trying to figure out a way, but came up empty. So if you can explain how to get it to forward, she would probably appreciate knowing.</p>
<p>Oh, weird. I thought that the barnard email could be forwarded, but it looks like I was wrong- I don't see the same options that were in the columbia email. I just assumed that since I managed to forward my columbia email it worked the same for barnard. </p>
<p>If you want to forward your @columbia email address though, you go into the "options" menu, then "delivery settings".</p>
<p>We figured that out... I think (I really don't remember now, since it was a year ago). I do internet/web site hosting for a living, so I'm pretty savvy technically -- so I was pretty sure that the ebear system didn't offer forwarding ... but I figured there is always something new I could learn, which is why I asked. </p>
<p>It is frustrating because with forwarding it would be very easy to set the whole thing up through gmail. But I think that even though its nice to be able to send email from "barnard.edu" or "columbia.edu" -- the user name conventions are also frustrating -- that is, my daughter prefers sending email from <a href="mailto:first.lastname@gmail.com">first.lastname@gmail.com</a> than from <a href="mailto:fl1234@barnard.edu">fl1234@barnard.edu</a> -- I know she used the gmail address for all her summer internship applications. (In fact, she was upset because one time she replied using the <a href="mailto:mycutesyname@gmail.com">mycutesyname@gmail.com</a> by mistake! - which I supposed would be one advantage to sticking with the barnard.edu email.) </p>
<p>Of course you need the barnard.edu or columbia.edu for facebook, though....</p>
<p>I absolutely cannot help you with how to do this, but I do know that my d gets all of her e-mail (Barnard, Columbia, and web-based) through her e-mail program on her Mac. She set it up, but I can't tell you how. I just know it can be done. I will try to ask her for some tips later and pass them on!</p>
<p>Actually I think I know what would have to be done -- it just can't be forwarded, but gmail can be figured to check a POP box on a different email account so that's probably what would need to be done. I'll check with my d. to see if she needs/wants my help with that -- for all I know, she might have already figured out what to do.</p>
<p>yea i have a mac too but i can't figure out how to get barnard to forward stuff to my acount. columbia yes barnard no :(</p>
<p>thanks alot 502W!</p>