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Melody Smith will also get an eServices id to use for logging in. This will be in the format of first four characters of last name and last four characters of Fredonia ID. So Melody Smith may have an eServices ID of "smit1234." This value is used for logging in to many services. Some of them require the format "smit1234" and some require the format "smit1234@fredonia.edu." Note that "smit1234@fredonia.edu" looks very much like an email address, and indeed, it can be used that way. For Melody, email sent to "mlsmith@fredonia.edu" and email sent to "smit1234@fredonia.edu" will go into the same inbox. Melody will always use "smit1234" to log on to her email, and will never log in with "mlsmith" or "mlsmith@fredonia.edu."
However, Google default defaults to using the account name as the email address when you first start using it. You can easily update it to use your email address. Here's how:
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