<p>I use my email a lot and I wanted something professional, in the sense of "<a href="mailto:firstname.surname@cornell.edu">firstname.surname@cornell.edu</a>".</p>
<p>I recently found out that your email is your net id, and if that's anything like my applicant ID it's going to be rpd###@cornell.edu, which imo sucks. </p>
<p>I did some research and foudn the Optional Elias system.
COEA:</a> Cornell's Optional E-mail Alias
However, it says it's only available to alumni and professors. However, there are people on this board who said that they know people that have gotten them, but mostly with connections inside CIT.</p>
<p>Do you have to know someone in CIT to get this done, or is it possible to simply put in a request and have it pass? I don't exactly have a common name (Roneal Desai), so I just want to know is it realistic for me to get this through the special request option, or should I just wait until I meet someone that hook me up?</p>
<p>***On a side note, how do you students that have tried like the new CMail features?</p>
<p>I also heard that you need a connection with someone inside CIT. There’s probably no other way to change it. I was also hoping for a more professional email address, so I’m just going to forward everything to my Gmail account (which is firstname.surname) and continue to use that.</p>
<p>As a prefrosh I never used the old Cornell email system, but since CMail is basically Gmail for Cornellians, I love it! Everything is extremely well-organized, and the spam filter is really good.</p>
<p>CMail is great, but you have to keep googling the link and try to find the darn log-in screen. the actual inbox is great, but an easy URL could be easier.</p>
<p>As for the email alias, that seems really cool. i have some friends who are students and work for CIT (if you just find a computer science major in the engineering school, chances are they are or at least know someone who works with or in CIT and can probably hook you up.)</p>
<p>I’ll inquire more about this…</p>
<p>btw, I bookmarked Cmail, and all I have to do is type in “Cm” into the url field on Firefox and then I can click on it.</p>
<p>I do wish they had a shortcut url we could use though. you wouldn’t think it would be incredibly difficult.</p>
<p>Cmail is pretty sweet.</p>
<p>The alias deal doesn’t do anything but change your email to something ‘more professional’, and unless you’re dating someone at CIT, it’s not gonna happen for you outside the requirements they posted</p>
<p>There is a shortcut url to Cmail: mail.cmail.cornell.edu
Not quite as short as it could be, but inside info says they’re looking into changing it.</p>
<p>actually i just tried out the shortened url and you can just do:</p>
<p>cmail.cornell.edu</p>
<p>redirects to the same place.</p>
<p>Would anyone mind explaining the point of having CMail if you already have a GMail account?</p>
<p>having a cornell email address is definitely more professional than a gmail account. when you email professors, businesspeople etc, seeing @cornell.edu gives you more legitimacy. this is definitely more important when you are networking for internships. i really would not worry about not having <a href=“mailto:first.last@cornell.edu”>first.last@cornell.edu</a>. on your resume you list your email and there is a good directory on the cornell website.</p>
<p>Well, that wasn’t really my question. GMail already lets you receive and send emails through any account, ie. I use GMail to send emails as <a href=“mailto:netID@cornell.edu”>netID@cornell.edu</a>. I was more wondering what all the hype was about, since CMail seems essentially identical to GMail. It did, however, occur to me this morning that I could use CMail as my mail dump and keep my GMail account neat and tidy. That way I can keep my Inbox/Archive pretty empty, but not have to worry about losing any important emails.</p>
<p>I plan on running two emails, the Cornell one, and my current one. I like the Cornell one because, well, it’s <a href=“mailto:....@Cornell.edu”>…@Cornell.edu</a> It speaks for itself. I don’t feel like initials and a number is unprofessional at all.</p>
<p>So basically to get the Alias you HAVE to know someone?</p>
<p>In that case is there anyone on this board in CIT that can hook it up :D</p>
<p>Actually, TchaikovskyPiano, when you send an e-mail using your GMail account, it isn’t really from your connected Cornell account. Forward an e-mail to yourself and instead of saying “<a href=“mailto:piano@cornell.edu”>piano@cornell.edu</a>” it says “<a href="mailto:piano@gmail.com”>piano@gmail.com</a> [On Behalf Of <a href=“mailto:piano@cornell.edu”>piano@cornell.edu</a>]" in the message. It’s not the same. Also, not a lot of people know how to forward, archive, etc, so instead of going through that complex system, Cornell reverted to using it as a permanent system.</p>
<p>Another cool feature is gmail’s instant chat feature. When you’re forwarding stuff through, you can’t really use it. Now that everyone is using gmail’s system, you can chat with all cornellians. Its like instant AIM for all Cornellians.</p>
<p>Eh, not sure what you’re talking about; I tried a bunch of things and every time it says from “<a href=“mailto:piano@cornell.edu”>piano@cornell.edu</a>”. I even sent a test email to a friend, and she confirmed that it states the email is from my Cornell email, no mention of GMail.</p>
<p>~Piano I believe this is what Jay1020 is referring too.</p>
<p>“Note: when you’re sending with a different ‘From:’ address, your Gmail address will still be included in your email header’s sender field, to help prevent your mail from being marked as spam. Most email clients don’t display the sender field, though some versions of Microsoft Outlook may display “From <a href="mailto:yourusername@gmail.com”>yourusername@gmail.com</a> on behalf of <a href="mailto:customaddress@mydomain.com”>customaddress@mydomain.com</a>."</p>
<p>The above quote was taken from [Adding</a> a custom ‘From’ address - Gmail Help](<a href=“http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=22370]Adding”>Send emails from a different address or alias - Gmail Help)</p>
<p>So, it really depends on what the recipients email client does with what you send them. Chances are, if you tested it by sending it to someone with a gmail or to your own gmail it will look fine. But send it to someone that uses Outlook and they will see it came from your gmail address, not your cornell address.</p>
<p>Ha, that never occurred to me; thank you Jay and usafa for pointing that out. (I tested on a Yahoo account and it looked fine, but never tried Outlook.)</p>
<p>Yeah, he’s right… It does show on behalf of in outlook. I was hoping to use my not so professional email that I’m used to to forward cornell stuff to and send from… I guess not.</p>