How does your company make email address?
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@dashrender said in How does your company make email address?:
Back in the 90's when I first got email, the company used FI Lastname all pushed together.
I've seen a trend over the last five years to try to just use firstnames or firstname LI.
I'm curious what you guys are seeing?
We do first.last@domain.com. For [insert nonsense reason here] we also make an alias to each mailbox with first@domain.com.
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@dashrender said in How does your company make email address?:
Back in the 90's when I first got email, the company used FI Lastname all pushed together.
I've seen a trend over the last five years to try to just use firstnames or firstname LI.
I'm curious what you guys are seeing?
first initial + last name is standard because for most companies (ie SMB is most), it is generally unique.
Name only is like a vanity add on. Just make an alias if the user wants it and management approves.
First names are not unique enough. What do you do when Bob Smith quits after 20 years and then in a year you hire Bob Jones? All of Bob Smiths SPAM that was harvested over 20 years suddenly starts flowing in again because bob@company.com is suddenly taking email again.
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@eddiejennings said in How does your company make email address?:
@dashrender said in How does your company make email address?:
Back in the 90's when I first got email, the company used FI Lastname all pushed together.
I've seen a trend over the last five years to try to just use firstnames or firstname LI.
I'm curious what you guys are seeing?
We do first.last@domain.com. For [insert nonsense reason here] we also make an alias to each mailbox with first@domain.com.
firstname.lastname@company.com is great and even more unique the firstinitiallastname@company.com
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@jaredbusch Yeah, those are fine.
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Everyone gets FirstName.LastName@domain.com. If they want to deviate from that they have to run it past their supervisor.
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firstnamelastname@domain.com is the standard, plus aliases of both just firstname@domain.com and firstname.lastname@domain.com, depending on the user.
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@jaredbusch said in How does your company make email address?:
ough. What do you do when Bob Smith quits after 20 years and then in a year you hire Bob Jones? All of Bob Smiths SPAM that was harvested over 20 years suddenly starts flowing in again because bob@company.com is suddenly taking email again.
We have a mixed since the company has been in business for 20 years.
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@dbeato said in How does your company make email address?:
@jaredbusch said in How does your company make email address?:
ough. What do you do when Bob Smith quits after 20 years and then in a year you hire Bob Jones? All of Bob Smiths SPAM that was harvested over 20 years suddenly starts flowing in again because bob@company.com is suddenly taking email again.
We have a mixed since the company has been in business for 20 years.
I've had that happen in finance and it was a disaster.
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@scottalanmiller said in How does your company make email address?:
@dbeato said in How does your company make email address?:
@jaredbusch said in How does your company make email address?:
ough. What do you do when Bob Smith quits after 20 years and then in a year you hire Bob Jones? All of Bob Smiths SPAM that was harvested over 20 years suddenly starts flowing in again because bob@company.com is suddenly taking email again.
We have a mixed since the company has been in business for 20 years.
I've had that happen in finance and it was a disaster.
Yes, it is and even though I enforce it to have it the pattern we want people complain.
