Forwarding Your Student Email


We recommend that:

1. Students not forward email from the student.ufv.ca email system to a non-UFV email system.

2. Students always use their UFV email address when contacting instructors.

Why?

• We can't guarantee that you will receive messages forwarded to another email system. A forwarded message could bounce if your inbox is full or otherwise unavailable, or it could e blocked altogether by a spam filter.
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• Email sent from a non-UFV email  address to a UFV address may be blocked  by our spam filters without notification to  you or the recipient.  Your instructor or  other important recipient may not receive  your email at all. 
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• The UFV-assigned email address clearly  identifies you as a student.  For example,  email from soccerstardude@hotmail.com or  cutekitten524@yahoo.ca may look like  spam in an instructor's inbox, and be  deleted unread.
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• If you are submitting an assignment close  to deadline, the UFV email system will get it  to your instructor on time. Other email systems  may delay sending email, which could cause  assignments to be delivered late to your  instructor's inbox.  This could result in  deducted marks or worse, depending on  your instructor's late assignment policy.
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• Having to maintain additional non-UFV mailing  lists makes more work for instructors who may be  interacting with 100+ students per term.   

However, if you STILL want to take  risks with your UFV email communication,  contact the ITS Helpdesk  at HelpDesk.ITS@ufv.ca for instructions.