Defining alternate Business Card Addresses:

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All Business Card Addresses have a domain part that consists of the text:

@vanderbilt.edu 

In addition to the preassigned Business Card Address (BCA) which takes the form:

first.m.last@vanderbilt.edu 

You may select up to two alternate email addresses.

The portion of the address immediately preceding the domain part must consist of a dot (.) followed by either the full text of your official surname or a shortened form of your surname consisting of at least five consecutive characters. Example addresses for someone named Roberta Allison Smith-Jones could end in

.Smith-Jones@vanderbilt.edu 

or

.Smith@vanderbilt.edu 

or

.Jones@vanderbilt.edu 

The text preceding the dot-surname specified is not restricted by policy. You may elect to specify nicknames or to drop your middle initial for instance. Remember that the university Acceptable Use Policy explicitly prohibits attempting to intercept email intended for others, so avoid using misleading text in this part of the address. Example addresses for someone named Roberta Allison Smith-Jones:

Roberta.Smith-Jones@vanderbilt.edu 

or

Robbie.Smith@vanderbilt.edu 

or

Allison.Jones@vanderbilt.edu 

Since business card addresses must be unique within Vanderbilt, the system software will grant use of a particular Business Card Address to the first user who requests it.
You must specify one of your addresses as preferred. The VUmail system will use this preferred address to construct the from address fields in messages the user sends.

Internet mail address standards restrict the use of non-alphanumeric characters in address strings. The system will not permit you to select alternate BCAs which contain most non-alphanumeric characters.

Users who have a suffix attached to their surname (jr., sr., III, etc.) will be allowed to append the suffix preceded by a dot to an alternate Business Card Address, provided that the desired suffix is present in the authoritative account database (i.e. it is present in the name information obtained from Human Resources or the Registrar's office) For example, John.von.Neumann.III@Vanderbilt.Edu would be valid so long as the III suffix were present in source data obtained from the Registrar or Human Resources.

Examples of legal and illegal BCAs

Examples for Roberta Allison Smith-Jones:

Examples for Winston Tyler Joffrey III: