Applying for an e-mail address

Students automatically get an e-mail address and the user identification ("s-Kennung") upon matriculation. They are part of the starter kit together with the chip card (student ID card), PIN-letter, and the necessary passwords. 

JLU staff members have to apply for a user identification ("g-Kennung") in order to get an e-mail address. 

If you leave Justus Liebig University Giessen, you can still use your e-mail address for receiving e-mails as an alumnus. Please let us know if you want to make use of this possibility. 

Your JLU e-mail address

Your JLU e-mail address follows this scheme:

forename.surname@subjectarea.uni-giessen.de

Max Mustermann from the department of business studies and economics ("Wirtschaft"), for example, would therefore have the following e-mail address: Max.Mustermann@wirtschaft.uni-giessen.de

Melanie Musterfrau from the field of organic chemistry gets this e-mail address:

Melanie.Musterfrau@org.chemie.uni-giessen.de

It is absolutely necessary that you communicate the complete e-mail address that you have been given to your e-mail partners. 

There is no guarantee that a shortened e-mail address like mustermann@uni-giessen.de works reliably now or in the future. Even if such a shortened e-mail address has worked reliably in the past, we will not be able to introduce aliases to make them continue to do so. 

Out-of-office replies and mail redirection 

If you use our IMAP-servers, you can install an automatic out-of-office reply. Users of Exchange please use this link. 

You can install e-mail redirections with the help of our user data base. Please see our user guide for electronic mail for further information.