Electronic Post Office (EPO)
An Electronic Post Office (EPO) is maintained as part of the University directory. This is a mail forwarding device that allows everyone at the University to have the same generic mail address. We recommend using your EPO address on your business cards and stationary, but please check what your EPO address actually is before you have these materials printed. Typically an EPO address will look as follows:
firstname.lastname@stonybrook.edu
Think of the EPO as a mail forwarding address. When an e-mail is sent to your EPO address, it will be forwarded to the mailbox specified in the directory. By default, this mailbox is your campus e-mail account (Lotus Notes, MS, Sparky or another valid Stony Brook University e-mail account). If you have more than one Stony Brook University e-mail account, the default mailbox will be the account that was created first. You can specify which account you want your mail forwarded to by changing this mailbox entry in the directory yourself.
Find Your EPO Address
To view your EPO entry, go to the directory. Enter your first name and last name and click "Search." Your EPO e-mail address will appear as your "E-Mail Address." E-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to the mailbox specified in the directory.
If you do not have a mailbox specified, then you should not give out your EPO address.
Change Your EPO Mailbox
You may change the mailbox specified in the directory at any time. This mailbox entry must be a valid Stony Brook University e-mail account. It cannot be an external e-mail account (i.e. your Yahoo or Hotmail account).
- Go to https://adam.cc.sunysb.edu/epo.html
- Select "Mail Forwarding"
- Enter your Stony Brook ID
- Enter your birthdate in the following format: YYMMDD
- Click "Start"
- You will see the default mail forwarding address
- Click your mail name and enter a new forwarding address
- Click "Update"