Positional email addresses

In addition to your University of Newcastle email address, there may be times when you need a positional email address such as:

• a person's role (eg IT-Director@newcastle.edu.au)
• an organisational unit (eg IT-Infrastructure@newcastle.edu.au)
• a particular service (eg 17000@newcastle.edu.au)
• a marketing address for a conference or project (eg ITAsia-2014@newcastle.edu.au, IT-in-schools@newcastle.edu.au)

You might also request a positional email address to:

• ensure business continuity when positions are filled by new, or 'acting' staff,
• enable more than one person to access email, eg a team responding to enquiries, or an administrative assistant accessing their supervisor's email, or
• as a contact point not tied to any particular individual

To request a positional email address please click here. When completing this request please keep the naming standards  in mind (see below).

Using a positional email address

When you request a positional account you will be designated as the 'owner'. As the owner, you can manage additional user access by using security groups .
You can switch from your own UNify account to the positional account inbox and folders to view, send and receive emails.

• Adding a positional account (Windows)
• Adding a positional account (Mac OS X)
• Adding permissions to a positional shared account (Windows)
• Mailbox sharing and permissions (Mac OS X)
• Setting up an auto reply from a positional account