Laura Klamot

Edit my email address

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Edit my email address

ACORN asks for your official U of T email address so that official correspondence from the university will reach you. You will receive a U of T email address after activating your UTORid and UTMail+ account. Visit the TCard Office website for more information about this process. Once you have your email, you can monitor your UTMail+ inbox.

Once you get your official email address, it should automatically appear in your ACORN profile. In most cases, you should not need to manually update your email address within ACORN. However, you may want to update your email to reflect your alumni email address once you graduate, or to reflect a departmental email if you have one.

  1. To check or update the email address currently saved to ACORN, first go to the Profile and Settings page.
  2. From the Profile and Settings page, go to the Email area from the navigation beneath the Profile and Settings heading.
  3. Your email address will be displayed here. Please ensure that it matches your official email that is used within your UTMail+ inbox. If it is incorrect, select the Edit Email Address button.
  4. On the Edit page, you can correct your email address. Please ensure that the email ends in mail.utoronto.ca, utoronto.ca or toronto.edu. You cannot currently add non-U of T email addresses to ACORN.The Edit Email Address page contains a place to correct your email address.
  5. After saving, you will be taken back to the Email Address page, and a success message will display. You can edit your email address at any time by selecting the Edit Email Address button.
    A success message appears and the updated email address is displayed.

Email Address Errors

ACORN may tell you about errors that need to be resolved before saving your email. If you encounter an error, the issue will appear at the top of the form. These are examples of errors that you might encounter: 

  • The email address field is left empty. Having your official email address saved to ACORN is mandatory.
  • You entered an email address that does not end in utoronto.ca or toronto.edu. There may be a typo, or you may have entered a non-U of T email address.
  • The email address entered is too long.
  • Unsupported text characters are added. Certain characters cannot be added to ACORN. The error message will tell you which ones are allowed. For email addresses, only letters from a to z, periods and one @ symbol is allowed.

In this example, there is a typo. The email address is missing the “.ca” at the end.