Email Delivery and Forwarding using PHUpdate


delivery point is where your "@uci.edu" email is sent. If you want your UCI email sent to a different address, it may be possible for you to change your delivery point.

If you are faculty, staff, or a guest of the university, oftentimes you cannot change this yourself, so please partner with your Computing Support Coordinator (CSC) to discuss changing it first.

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Preset Delivery Points

Faculty, Staff and Sponsored UCInetIDs

When you activate your UCInetID, your delivery point will either be set to UCI Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, depending on your department policy. Oftentimes you cannot change this yourself, so please partner with your Computing Support Coordinator (CSC) to discuss changing it first.

Students

Delivery points are set to UCI Gmail Services.

Delivery Point Choices

The choice of where you want your UCI email delivered is yours. You may choose to have your email delivered to:

Setting Your Delivery Point using PHUpdate

Health Affairs Personnel: To help ensure the security of confidential email traffic, Health Affairs personnel are not permitted to change their UCI email delivery point to an external address. This function has been disabled. Please contact the Help Desk at (714) 456-3333 with any questions.

If your delivery point is set to exchange.uci.edu, unfortunately, you will not be able to change it yourself. Open a ticket so we can discuss the situation; most likely, your department or CSC may require you to use Exchange and we will, therefore, be unable to assist.

  1. Decide where you want your "@UCI.EDU" email delivered.
    Employees may want to check with their Computing Support Coordinators
  2. If you are an undergraduate student using UCI Gmail, follow the directions for delivery to your UCI Gmail account.
  3. If you are using a server other than OIT Mailbox Services, find out the full email address and write it down. For example, samuel.omeone@gmail.com
  4. Go to PhUpdate at https://phupdate.oit.uci.edu/phupdate
  5. Log in with your UCInetID and password.
    Activate your UCInetID if you have not done so.
  6. Click the radio button next to UCI Gmail Services to set up delivery to your UCI Gmail account.
  7. If you want your email delivered to another server on campus or elsewhere, choose the Other radio button and type in the full address.
  8. After entering your new email address, click on the "Submit Change Request" button when finished.  This will save your changes.

Note: If you want to change your delivery point in the future, follow the steps above and select a different service.