====== Primary Email Address ======
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Several variants for email addresses are available for your personal mailbox, e.g.:
  - userid@gwdg.de
  - userid@uni-goettingen.de
  - name.surname@department.uni-goettingen.de, e.g. name.surname@phil.uni-goettingen.de

E-Mail Addresses of the first kind are always connected to the respective mailboxes.\\
E-Mail Addresses of the second kind are only available to university staff.\\
The third kind of E-Mail Addresses finally contains the faculty the user's institute belongs to, like the Faculty of Humanities in the above example.\\

One of these e-mail addresses is defined as the **primary e-mail address** which should be used for services such as [[en:services:email_collaboration:email_service:start|E-mail]], [[en:services:email_collaboration:ms_sharepoint:start|SharePoint]] etc.

You can check and manage your email aliases at GWDG's [[https://www.gwdg.de/my-account | Customer Portal]] in the "My account" section.

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