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E-mail

If you are graduating or have recently graduated, then your @ucsf.edu email account will be closed 6 months following your official graduation date.

Winter grads

Winter 2010 grads can expect to no longer have access to @ucsf.edu email on and after September 26, 2011.

Summer, fall, or spring grads

If you graduate in a quarter other than winter, see column 2 of graduation verification letters to determine your official graduation date.

The closure date passed, but my account still works. Why?

Your account might still work for a few days on or after the official closure date because there is some variability in the administrative process of closing many accounts at the same time. So yes, your account might still work on or after this date, but this is not guaranteed, and your access could be removed at any time on or after the closure date.

Continuing at UCSF

Are you continuing at UCSF?

Next steps

To prepare for your @ucsf.edu email account closure, take the following steps soon after your date of graduation:

1. Set up another email account if you don't already have a Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, or other email account for personal use.
2. Share your contact info with us to let us keep in touch with you. Email the Pharmacy Alumni Association at udarpaa@support.ucsf.edu.
3. Set up free email forwarding (optional): If you're interested, the Alumni Association can set you up with free email forwarding. You choose your @alumni.ucsf.edu email address which forwards messages to a personal email account of your choice. This enables you to clearly and easily communicate that you are a UCSF graduate. To sign up, email udarpaa@support.ucsf.edu to request a Community ID number, which enables you to access the UCSF Alumni Online Community and all of the benefits associated with it.
4. Set up an @alumni.ucsf.edu email account (optional): Free email forwarding with @alumni.ucsf.edu enables you to receive messages at your @alumni.ucsf.edu address. In order for messages to appear to be sent from @alumni.ucsf.edu, you can purchase an email account on alumni.ucsf.edu for just $14.99 per year. Email udarpaa@support.ucsf.edu for details.

5. Notify appropriate parties that your @ucsf.edu email address will no longer be available and give them the email address you'd like them to use instead. For example:

   1. Send a mass mailing to everyone in your address book.
   2. Create a signature in Outlook, Outlook Web App, or Entourage.
6. Update accounts on websites that use your email address as your login. For example, if you created an account with a website using your UCSF email address, neglect to update your account with your non-UCSF email address, and then later forget your password, they will probably attempt to send you a password reset link to your @ucsf.edu email address, to which you will no longer have access. Your access to your @ucsf.edu email account cannot be restored, even for situations like these.
7. Set a vacation notice (optional): When you're ready to stop using your @ucsf.edu email account, set a vacation notice that notifies others of your new email address.

Saving messages

To save (archive) email messages from your @ucsf.edu email account:

1. If you haven't already, Set Up Outlook or Set Up Entourage.
2. Archive messages using Outlook or Archive messages using Entourage.

You can also use other email applications such as Apple Mail and Mozilla Thunderbird to archive email. After connecting, just check that your messages are copied to your computer.

No email forwarding from @ucsf.edu

Unfortunately, due to limited resources, technology constraints, and other factors, we are unable to forward your @ucsf.edu email messages to another email account (even your alumni email account).

After your @ucsf.edu email account closes

Messages sent to it will be processed as though your email account does not exist. The message is returned to the sender with an error message stating that the message was undeliverable.

Other computing services shall also close

Closure of your CLE/Moodle, WebCT, VPN, and other accounts and services will also take place after September 25.

Questions?

Contact us.

Go to: Graduation Overview