Body
About
Shared accounts and Distribution lists
Audience
- Students
- Faculty
- Staff
- Guests
Details
Some items to keep in mind when deciding which is right for your needs.
Shared Accounts
- Shared accounts have their own folders in the email account of the members.
- At this time, only the owner of the Shared account can add Calendar events in the Shared account calendar and have them viewable by other members of the account.
- Shared accounts cannot be forwarded to other Shared accounts.
- If you set up an IMAP account in Outlook, you can subscribe to the Shared folders so you can view them in Outlook.
- Shared accounts that were converted from an old Group eID will retain any calendars that were included in the Group account.
- Shared account members can remove existing calendars (converted from a Group eID) but cannot add new calendars once it is a Shared account.
- See About shared accounts for more information.
Distribution Lists
- Distribution lists are ONLY for sending out emails to the members of the list.
- Distribution lists do NOT have a folder or calendar associated with the account.
- Distribution lists act like the old alias function.
- See the Mailing lists website for more information.