All Trinity students, faculty and staff receive an e-mail address. The address is in the form Firstname.Lastname@trincoll.edu omitting any apostrophes or hyphens. For people with similar names, a number is added: john.doe.1, john.doe.2, etc. For graduates of Trinity College the year of graduation is added: mary.jane.1988.
Since the list of names is taken directly from the Trinity College directory, in which people are listed by full legal name, nicknames should not be used. If you mistype the name, send e-mail using a nickname, or if the person to whom you are trying to send e-mail is not listed in the College's database, the e-mail server will return the message to you.
Incoming students have the ability to activate their e-mail and other accounts before they even arrive on campus. More information is available in a separate guide.
All students are required to use their Trinity e-mail address for correspondence during their entire tenure at Trinity, however, students may forward their Trinity e-mail to another address if they wish. Much of the communication between faculty, students, staff, departments and programs occurs via Trinity e-mail addresses, in particular, time-critical information.
Faculty and staff must complete all paperwork and submit it to the Human Resources before they will be able to receive an e-mail account. (This e-mail creation process normally takes 2 weeks from when the information is entered in the Human Resources system.) Faculty and staff who would like to activate their e-mail account prior to arriving at Trinity should contact the Help Desk at (860)297-2100. (Again, all paperwork must be completed.)