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Electronic Directory, Errors While Changing Forwarding Settings
The mail field in the Electronic Directory Editor (EDE) will not accept email addresses with the @illinois.edu domain. For mail to be successfully delivered to your Illinois Outlook email, enter your email as NetID@mx.uillinois.edu.
- For example, if your NetID is test123, set you email forwarding settings to test123@mx.uillinois.edu.
Attempting to set your EDE mail forwarding to an email address with the @illinois.edu domain will result in the following error:
The edit to field email has FAILED. The email field is used to tell the campus mail system where to send mail addressed to NetID@uiuc.edu or NetID@illinois.edu. You cannot set your email address to point to "NetID@uiuc.edu" or "NetID@illinois.edu". Please use a more specific delivery address.
Note: If you make changes to your EDE settings, it will take up to 4 hours to take effect. Emails sent during this update time will not be delivered as expected.
Faculty and staff can no longer redirect or auto-forward their Illinois email. For more information, please see Privacy & Cybersecurity, Faculty and Staff Email Auto-forwarding Retirement FAQ.