CTools and Email: Linking Instructions

First, please note:

      Using the UMICH Online Directory tool with the steps described, you may have all email that is addressed to you at your-uniqname@umich.edu (which CTools does) forwarded to either your your-uniqname@umd.umich.edu or to your personal favorite email account - Hotmail, Yahoo, GMail, or other.

     If you forward your email to your umd.umich.edu address you must check that account for your CTools mail.

     If you forward it to your personal email address you must be sure that your email service does not treat mail delivered FROM umich.edu as SPAM mail. Some email services do that. Hotmail for instance does.

     You may always send yourself some test messages after you have set up your UMICH directory account the way you want it and see if messages go where you think they should.

Now follow these directions:

1. Go to the UMICH Online Directory.

2. Enter your uniquename and click Search.

3. Once the Directory finds your entry, browse the details listed.

• You need a valid email address on this page to successfully receive email from CTools.

4. To edit your email address, click BIND and Login with your uniqname and Kerberos Password. This is the same id and password you use to login to CTools.  (If you cannot successfully login here or on CTools, you will need to have your password reset. Dearborn students, faculty, and staff may contact the ITS Accounts Office or go to the Computing Wing to have their Kerberos password reset. See above contact information.)

5. After you Bind and login, click Modify to edit your listing

6. Scroll down to the E-MAIL FORWARDING ADDRESS field and type either your uniqname(at)umd.umich.edu, using the @ symbol to replace the (at), or any other valid email address you use (this can be a Yahoo, Hotmail, or any other address)

7. Click Save Changes

8. Your listing should now include UNIQNAME and E-MAIL ADDRESS fields filled in, and you should now receive email from CTools

9. Logout