If you have not done so previously (such as when setting up your UniMail account), set your preferred email address alias, and email reply-to alias.

1. Go the the UNSW Identity Manager web site at www.idm.unsw.edu.au. Enter your UNSW User ID and UniPass password, then click 'Login'.

If this is the first time you have logged in to the IDM site you will be prompted to agree to the conditions of use and answer the authentication questions.

Agree to the Conditions of use - UNSW ICT Resources.

Supply answers of your choosing to the Answers to Authentication Questions table. In future, if you return to the Identity Manager website and press the ‘Forget your password?’ button you will be presented with some of these questions to answer.

It is important that you enter the answers accurately to ensure you can answer them in future.

Hint: If you have never owned a car, enter the word none in that field.

Click ‘Save’ to save your entries and exit the responses table.

Select a preferred alias

An email alias is the name that appears before the @ in an email address, such as yourname@student.unsw.edu.au

By default your email alias is your student User ID in the form of z1234567. You can choose instead an alias that contains your real name, in the form of 'sam.surname', or 's.surname' etc, as below:

1. Scroll down to the UNSW EMAIL section of UNSW Identity Manager.

2. Click the 'Update Alias' button

The window below will appear...

3. Tick the checkbox against your current email address. A drop-down list labelled '-Available Option-' will appear. From this list choose 'to Replace with' and a second list will appear. From the second list choose your preferred alias.

Note that it is not possible to add an additional alias to this list yourself. If your preferred name is not listed then you need to contact the IT Service Centre.

4. Click the 'Save Change' button to confirm your change.

Select a preferred reply-to address

When people reply to your emails, this is the address they will see in the To: field, which is called your reply-to address. If you wish you can set it to be the same as your email alias you set in the above step.

1. Click the 'Update Reply' button.

The window below will appear...

2. Click on the drop-down list labelled -Available Reply Addresses- and select your preferred 'reply-to' email address. Click 'Save Change' to confirm this change.

NOTE: Some of the changes made above may take up to 4 hours to propagate through the UNSW and Microsoft email infrastructure .

Logout of UNSW Identity Manager

When you have finished updating your settings, click 'Logout' to exit Identity Manager