Alumni News
ALUMNI CAN CREATE a personalized @sfaalumni.net SFA e-mail address by signing up for SFA Connect, an e-mail forwarding service. Registration is easy. Visit the SFA Alumni Association’s Web site at www.sfaalumni.com, and click the SFA Connect logo on the home page. Alumni must activate their profile on the association’s Web site before creating a personalized SFA e-mail address. Approval of a Web site profile account takes about one business day, depending on when individuals submit their information. Each person’s registration is reviewed by Alicia Chatman, gifts and records specialist for the SFA Alumni Association, to verify his or her relationship to SFA. Once their Web site memberships have been approved, alumni can return to the SFA Connect page
and proceed to the SFA Connect registration page. Since SFA Connect is a forwarding service, not an actual email account provider, users will need an established, active e-mail account. For example, if John Q. Alum has a personal Yahoo e-mail account as JohnQAlum@yahoo.com, he can create a JohnQAlum@sfaalumni.net e-mail address on SFA Connect and share that personalized SFA e-mail address with whomever he chooses. He will set his @sfaalumni.net address preferences to have all e-mail sent to JohnQAlum@sfaalumni.net forwarded or re-directed to his Yahoo e-mail account. SFA Connect users will need to make sure they keep their SFA Connect preferences current in order for the service to work properly. Using the earlier example of John Q Alum,
if John deletes his Yahoo e-mail account or switches to another account (Gmail, AOL, etc.) but doesn’t update his @sfaalumni.net address preferences to reflect forwarding to his new address, e-mail will not be re-directed. SFA Connect is a joint project of the SFA Alumni Association and SFA Office of Development and was developed by the SFA Office of Information Technology Services. The project has been in development for several years, and the association is happy to unveil it as a great way for alumni to show pride with each e-mail they send. ✯
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