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I’m graduating in May, what is going to happen to my Barnard email address?
Part of your transition from Barnard will involve the expiration of both your Barnard and Columbia email accounts. The timetable of expiration for Barnard email is as follows:
February graduates: accounts expire on June 15
May graduates: accounts expire the following January 15
October graduates: accounts expire the following June 15
In order to ensure a smooth transition from your old to new email accounts, please take the following five steps:
- Set Up a Replacement Email Address.
You should first establish and become comfortable with an alternate email address (i.e. GMail, Yahoo, MindSpring, etc), which will be your replacement email. GMail is particularly handy because it has virtually unlimited storage capacity, but you must be invited to set up a new account by a current GMail user. Contact if you need a GMail invite.
- Activate your Barnard alum forwarding address.
You should also sign up for an alumnae email forwarding address, in the format of username@alum.barnard.edu. All email sent to this address can be forwarded to the replacement email account. To sign up for the address, please visit: http://alum.barnard.edu/site/PreregAuth. (Note that you cannot set up your forwarding address until you have actually graduated.)
- Forward all incoming mail from your original Barnard email to your replacement email.
For a tutorial on how to forward email from your original Barnard account, please visit: http://www.barnard.edu/resnet/emailforward.html
- Set up a vacation message on your Barnard email.
Once you begin using your replacement email, you will need to set up a vacation message in your original Barnard email account, which will notify anyone who sends you email of your new address.
- Bounce all messages you want to save from you Barnard account to your replacement address.
In order to save email messages from your Barnard account, you will need to forward them to your replacement email through a process called bouncing, for which you will need to log into pine through ssh.
You will find more detailed instructions and information on making a smooth email transition after graduation on our website.
I'm not graduating – but I am going abroad. What should I know?
Students who go abroad tend to go over their email quota, which means they aren’t able to receive new messages and often can’t log into their accounts to delete old messages and free up space. It would be a good idea to become familiar with checking your email quota and deleting messages before you go abroad.
Students studying abroad should also set up an alternative email account (step 1 above) and may want to use a vacation message as well (step 4).