How do I find someone's e-mail address?
If the person is affiliated with the University of Michigan, check the U-M Online Directory. Most members of the U-M community have their e-mail addresses registered there.
The best way to send e-mail to people registered in the directory is by sending it to uniqname@umich.edu, where you have substituted the person's uniqname for uniqname. For example, if Barbara Jensen's uniqname were bjensen, you could send e-mail to her at bjensen@umich.edu. By definition, uniqnames are unique, and there will be no confusion as to who the mail is intended for.
In general, you can send e-mail to anyone whose e-mail address is registered in the U-M Online Directory by addressing the mail to firstname.lastname@umich.edu, where you have substituted the person's real first name for firstname and the person's real last name for lastname. For example, if you wanted to send e-mail to someone named Barbara Jensen at U-M, you would send it to barbara.jensen@umich.edu. Use this method with caution; if there are two or more people in the directory with the same name, the message will be returned to the sender (with a list of the duplicate names). It sometimes helps to add the person's middle initial if you know it, such as barbara.j.jensen@umich.edu.
This page last verified March 2008
|
Return to the E-Mail FAQ
