Why Two Email Addresses?
For most faculty and staff, contact email and maine.edu email are now the same. They are stored separately because contact email is used to send mail from this system, and your maine.edu email is used when you log in through the campus portal using your Maine Street password, and to perform an automatic login if you have an open portal session.
The separate storage of these two addresses originates from the time when all faculty and staff were assigned two email addresses: First Class (umit.maine.edu) and maine.edu; many preferred First Class and rarely used the maine.edu address. The First Class system was retired in May 2018. Some faculty and staff however, still, use a different address for their contact email.
You may update either or both of these addresses in the General Information page. Note that you can change your password (and your user name, if desired) by selecting Change Password at the top of the screen after you login.