Graduating Students - Email

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What happens

• Dartmouth offers a forwarding-only service for all alumni email.
• You will be able to continue using your @dartmouth.edu email address for the rest of your life, but there will be no mailbox attached.
• Other than your primary email address (e.g. john.a.doe.22@dartmouth.edu) and the (up to two) alternate email aliases you specified in dartdm.dartmouth.edu, any other email addresses at which you’ve been receiving mail will also stop working.
• Be sure to tell anyone who is not using your primary or alternate addresses to update their address book.

If you are continuing as a Dartmouth employee 

• Your email account will stay active, but the class year part of your email address will be removed.
• Your email address with the class year will automatically become an alias for your account so email sent to your current address (with the class year) will continue to be delivered to your mailbox.

If you are continuing as a Dartmouth graduate student

• Your email account will stay active, but the class year part of your email address will be changed to reflect your graduate student affiliation.
• Your email address with the current class year will automatically become an alias for your account so email sent to your current address (with your undergraduate class year) will continue to be delivered to your mailbox.

Deadline

• Approximately 60 days after graduating you will lose access to your Dartmouth email mailbox along with any emails, attachments, contacts, calendars,and other contents contained within your mailbox.

What you need to do

• Set up forwarding email address
• Move any email, contacts or other content that you want to keep
• Tell anyone who is not using your primary or alternate addresses to update their address book

Unsubscribe From Any Listserv Mailing Lists

• To avoid continuing to receive emails from groups you no longer want to receive, you need to unsubscribe prior to the change in your account to forwarding only.
• Please see instructions at Unsubscribe from a Campus Listserv List

Set forwarding on your @Dartmouth.edu email account

• Log into Dartmouth's Directory Manager system (dartdm.dartmouth.edu)
• Click on "Email Delivery Options" on the lower right
• Select "Forward To" and enter the personal email address
  • Once you complete this step, no email will be delivered to your Dartmouth.edu mailbox
  • Please confirm that email forwarding is working. Any messages forwarded to a mistyped address are unrecoverable.

Move any messages from your Dartmouth mailbox that you want to keep

• Log into your Dartmouth.edu account
• If there are any messages you want to keep you can either:
  • Manually forward them to your personal email account.
  • Use VaultMe to effortlessly migrate all of your emails to a personal email account - See Graduating Students - VaultMe
  • Manually export emails to a Gmail account - See Manually Export Email and Contacts to Gmail

Move any contacts from your Dartmouth mailbox that you want to keep

• Log into your Dartmouth.edu account
• Review your contacts
• If you want to keep a contact you can either:
  • Manually set it up in your personal email account or
  • Use VaultMe to effortlessly migrate all of your contacts to a personal email account - See Graduating Students - VaultMe
  • Manually export contacts to a Gmail account - See Manually Export Email and Contacts to Gmail
• Please test those addresses to ensure you transferred them correctly

Have a mobile device (smartphone, iPad, etc.)?

• Delete your dartmouth.edu account from this device when your mailbox is deactivated.
• You will no longer be able to view your Dartmouth.edu account on a mobile device, e-mail application or web browser.
• Use the personal email account to which you forwarded your Dartmouth.edu account to view any Dartmouth messages, contacts or events.

Nicknames and Aliases

• At Dartmouth, everyone can set up to two email aliases so that they can receive e-mail at a name by which they are more commonly known.
• See Manage Email Aliases for additional information.

Want to transfer email and contacts from your Dartmouth.edu account to a personal Gmail account?

• Click here for the instructions.

Note: While Dartmouth makes every effort to ensure all forwarded mail is delivered, and delivered in a timely manner, we cannot control all aspects of mail flow into or out of Dartmouth's email environment. Original sender organizations can effectively prohibit the forwarding of email, intentionally or through misconfiguration. Recipient email providers can delay, block, quarantine or alter messages.