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<p>"So if you want your email activated, look yourself up here to see your alias: <a href="https://dukeid.duke.edu:8882/emailalias/owa/publicsearch%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://dukeid.duke.edu:8882/emailalias/owa/publicsearch&lt;/a> . I didn't like the alias I was assigned (because my name is hard to spell, so I changed it right there on that link a few months ago but waited until yesterday to activate my email -I was lazy and used my parent's duke email address to get a Duke fb earlier).</p>

<p>Then go to <a href="https://webacct.acpub.duke.edu/online/activate/%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://webacct.acpub.duke.edu/online/activate/&lt;/a> and call the number for the help desk at the bottom of the page (919-684-2200). Their hrs. vary. Tell them you want the temporary password to set up your perm. password (or that you need to reset your password) and they'll ask you some questions to verify it's you. They'll give you a temp. pass (I think it took a half hour for it to be ready). Then you click that link at the bottom of the page and enter your net ID (non-alias email) and the temp. password and come up with your own better password. And, ta da, you are in. I think we get 90 somthing megabytes. You can thus access Blackboard. Since I'm not on Duke campus, I just set my Duke email to forward to my current gmail account for now ..(then you can get your facebook or whatever). "</p>

<p>From Myspace.com Duke 2010 Group</p>

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<p>Awesome info. </p>

<p>What exactly is the difference between the email alias and email address if they both end in "@duke.edu" ?</p>

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<p>There's two different ways to email yourself. :) If your name is George Hamilton Washington, your email is <a href="mailto:george.h.washington@duke.edu">george.h.washington@duke.edu</a> or <a href="mailto:ghw@duke.edu">ghw@duke.edu</a>. If someone has your initials, you are assigned a number. Using the previous example, you might be <a href="mailto:ghw22@duke.edu">ghw22@duke.edu</a>. I personally use my initials (which is also your netID) because it's shorter. </p>

<p>To access email, you go to <a href="http://www.mail.duke.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.mail.duke.edu&lt;/a>. Your netID also allows you to go to ACES, Blackboard, etc. An alternate way is to go to <a href="http://www.dukepass.duke.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.dukepass.duke.edu&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p>

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<p>Ahh so both of them can send and receive emails... Thank you</p>

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<p>it says you have to use a ".", so how do you use just your initals?</p>

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<p>The email alias has to have a period in it. Email address has no such requirement, so i just removed the period for my email address. My first and last name combined is only 7 letters and it definitely looks better than the initials I think.</p>

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<p>can this be done only by students who have paid their enrollment deposit and have had it received by Duke?</p>

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<p>I'm glad you found my information helpful, Med1488 (:</p>

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can this be done only by students who have paid their enrollment deposit and have had it received by Duke?

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<p>Log on and try it!</p>

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<p>I paid deposit long ago (I'm ED) but when i try to go on that website to find my alaias it says DUKE ID DATABASE SEARCH ERROR
Sorry, could not find.</p>

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<p>"can this be done only by students who have paid their enrollment deposit and have had it received by Duke?"</p>

<p>yes........</p>

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<p>I applied ED and the dude at the desk said we had to wait till early to Mid May. boo.</p>

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<p>i mean... not like you are actually going to use it :)</p>

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<p>When I got mine, I just told them my netid (see where Med 1488 quoted me above) and asked to reset my password, which is something anyone can request. They didn't even ask if I was an incoming frosh I don't think...but I can understand if a coupla thousand people call not knowing square one what to do and they have it all printed up to send you in May, they figure why not make you wait and give it to everyone at once when they're set up to handle so many questions. There's only about 50 of so '10ers on facebook right now (a lot more is happening on the MySpace group, so if you want a great place to chat, try there!)</p>

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<p>bump......................</p>

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<p>search your name on <a href="http://www.duke.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.duke.edu&lt;/a>............. ???</p>

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<p>is there any way to change the email address? i hate pc45.</p>

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<p>You can't change your actual email address, but you can change your "alias". For example you can have you alias be <a href="mailto:joe.smith@duke.edu">joe.smith@duke.edu</a> that gets sent to the email address <a href="mailto:pc45@duke.edu">pc45@duke.edu</a>, or you can change it to <a href="mailto:whateveryouwant@duke.edu">whateveryouwant@duke.edu</a> that gets sent to the email address <a href="mailto:pc45@duke.edu">pc45@duke.edu</a>. Its really easy to change too.</p>

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<p>ahhh awesome! thanks! how is the process for that?</p>

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<p>pri430, et al - go to <a href="https://webacct.acpub.duke.edu/online/%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://webacct.acpub.duke.edu/online/&lt;/a> for all your Duke mail needs</p>