Departmental Email Address
A Departmental Email address is the best way for others to write to an entire department rather than to individual members. The advantage is that the email address refers to a department rather than to an individual (for example, registrar@drew.edu). All staff in the department can have access so that more than one person can read and respond to incoming email.
If your department previously had a departmental email address, then it was brought over during our recent Gmail migration. Everyone who had access to it previously retains access now. If you need to add or remove someone, please contact the University Technology Service Center at x4357 (973-408-4357 from off-campus or cell phones).
Departmental Email address features:
- One inbox with access for all members of the department
- Email sent from this address will list the department and the sender's name will be listed Instructional Technology and User Services (sent by gbartle@drew.edu)
Requests for departmental email addresses must be made by the department head to fill out the . Please have adesired email name (up to xx characters)
Google Groups
With the exception of Google Groups for Student Clubs, which are managed by Student activities, University Technology oversees the creation of groups for the Drew Community. A Group Request Form should be completed by the Group Leader.
Once a group is created, management of that group becomes the responsibility of the Group Leader.
The Group Leader is added as an non-member owner of the group. This means they can manage the group, but will not receive emails in their personal mail when messages are posted to the group (i.e they are set to 'No Email')
The Group Leader will be responsible for deciding how members are added. By default, when members are added, they will be set to 'All Email', meaning any posts that go to the group also get sent to the member's personal email address.
Group is configured to accept posts from Anyone. This means the group can accept posts via e-mail from anyone.
Group members who want to send e-mails as the group address will need to link their personal mailbox to the group. Instructions are at https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en