Students: Your teachers want to send you email.

Any registered UIC student may open a personal account on icarus and use it as their email account. But these days many students come to UIC after having used another email address for many years, and they don't want or need a new email account.

That's not a problem, except that professors at UIC often send their students email messages and the email address that they will use is the student's UIC netid at uic.edu, abyron99@uic.edu, for example.

But even so, you don't have to use an icarus account to receive your professor's email. The only thing you have to do is tell us what real email address you want email that is addressed to your netid at uic.edu sent to. Do this by filling out the form on our ACCC Directory Update Web page:

https://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap-auth/bin/phupdate

You will have to open your ACCC account to login to use this utility. But you'll want one anyway for the other UIC online student services. Check out http://www.uic.edu/depts/ims/webstudent/

At the bottom of that page, you'll see a section that lists your netid at uic.edu email address. Type the real email address that you want email that is sent to your netid at uic.edu address to in the "is forwarded to:" box, for example adabyron99@hotmail.com, and click Submit the changes. Double check to make sure you haven't made any errors when you type the address; the uic.edu email forwarder doesn't have any way to check for incorrect email addresses and will send your email to whatever address you submit. Changes will take effect overnight.

After that, email sent to your netid at UIC, abryon99@uic.edu for example, will be forwarded to adabyron99@hotmail.com, and you'll receive your prof's email just like your fellow students.