An email alias is an alternative email address which can be used by staff and student should they wish to use another email address that is easier to remember e.g. “chan-tai-man@hku.hk“. An account name consists of 4-8 characters whereas an email alias can have 9 to 32 characters with any combination of alphabets, numbers and special characters “-“, “.”, “_”.
An email alias is not another email account but only an alternative email address. Therefore, an email alias cannot be used to login the HKU email account and HKU Portal UID should be used instead.
To set up an email alias
- Staff and students: Change of Email Alias
- Graduates using HKU Connect
- Graduates using graduate.hku.hk
To change the sender email address,
- Staff, students and Departmental account: Name/Email Address Registration in Mail
- Graduates using graduate.hku.hk