Mail Alias Service

The Mail Alias Service is an email forwarding service using a general JP domain "nagoya-u.jp" acquired by Nagoya University.

Members of Nagoya University use an email address with the domain, nagoya-u.ac.jp, on a daily basis. For instance, if your email address is xxxxxx@yyy.nagoya-u.ac.jp, emails sent to you via Internet will be received by the mail server for yyy.nagoya-u.ac.jp and maintained in your mail box.

On the contrary, emails sent to your address for Mail Alias, xxxxxx@nagoya-u.jp, are received by the Mail Alias Server first and then forwarded to the email address that you have registered in advance.

Consequently, this system enables you to receive emails with your current email address and also to receive emails with a Mail Alias address at the same time.

Services

• You can obtain an email address with a nagoya-u.jp domain (note: the domain is not nagoya-u.ac.jp) using your desired user name.
  • The condition of the character string which can be used is as follows.
    • The character to which you can apply is only the left side of the "@" mark.
    • The practicable character: A small letter, a number and - (hyphen), _ (underscore) . (Period) can be used for registration with an alias name.
    • A period can't be used for the first character and the last character.
    • A period can't be used continuously.
    • The practicable number of characters: More than 2 character.
    • You can't use a character string related to university administration or system management (example: admin, info, postmaster, root).
    • You can't apply for a character string related to an event and business because our service is having personal long-term use for its object.
    • When being judged as an improper character string later even if application was accepted and it was being used, I'll sometimes request change in the alias.
• Email sent to YourDesiredUserName@nagoya-u.jp can be forwarded to an email address that has been specified in advance.
  • Email can be forwarded to the email address regardless of whether it is a school address or not.
  • The forwarding destination may be changed as many times as you like.
  • If the forwarding destination is a school email address, a virus check is performed automatically.
  • The Mail Alias Service is an email forwarding service for personal email. It cannot be used to forward email to mailing lists, etc.

• You can send email using YourDesiredUserName@naogya-u.jp.

• You can send emails. For more details, please see here.
  • This service will be operated as an official service provided by the Information Technology Center for at least five years after a one-year test service period.

• When registering a Mail Alias address and configuring the forwarding destination, the user is authenticated with Nagoya University ID. Therefore, this service is available for those persons who have a Nagoya University ID issued by the Information & Communications. Please refer here for Nagoya University ID.

• Forwarding email to an office mail address and sending email from an office mail address are not allowed in this service.

Advantages for Users

• You can obtain an email address of your choosing unless it is being used by another person.
• You can use a shorter email address than the email address for nagoya-u.ac.jp that you use currently.
• You do not have to change your email address even though your affiliation has changed.

Apply for, Change and Delete a Mail Alias Address

• Faculty and staff members and students of Nagoya University:
  • Please access https://mail-alias.icts.nagoya-u.ac.jp/ to submit an application. If you submit an application to issue or change a Mail Alias address, a confirmation mail will be sent to your Mail Alias address when the registration is complete.
• Former faculty and staff members, and alumni of Nagoya University who applied to continue to use who have a Nagoya University ID:
  • Please access https://mail-alias.icts.nagoya-u.ac.jp/ to submit an application. If you submit an application to issue or change a Mail Alias address, a confirmation mail will be sent to your Mail Alias address when the registration is complete.
• Persons without a Nagoya University ID:
  • Please access the Nagoya University ID website and apply for a Nagoya University ID.

Notice

• Application for a Mail Alias address:
  • Please specify a Mail Alias address and an email forwarding destination. Each person can create one Mail Alias address. If the requested Mail Alias address is already registered by other user, we may ask you to submit another application. Registration may be completed within one week.
• Changing a Mail Alias address:
  • Once your Mail Alias address is established and the forwarding service has started, the Mail Alias address cannot be changed. If you are compelled to change the address, please contact the General Affairs, Information Promotion Division, Information & Communications (Information Technology Center 1F).
• Changing the Forwarding Destination:
  • The forwarding destination for email received at the Mail Alias address can be changed as many times as you like. The forwarding destination may be changed within one week of the request.
• Deleting a Mail Alias Address:
  • No one who deletes a Mail Alias address may apply for a Mail Alias address again. The deleted Mail Alias address will not be re-allocated to another person.

Configuration of the Mail Sending Server (SMTP server)

This is a mail sending server service available from anywhere in the world using Nagoya University ID. For the specific configuration, please refer here (Japanese).

Contact

The person in charge of the Mail Alias Test Service, Information Infrastructure Section, Information Promotion Division, Information & Communications
(Information Technology Center 3F; email address: nu-alias-admin@icts.nagoya-u.ac.jp )