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Alumni Email for Life is a permanent @ucsd.edu email address from which Alumni can send and receive emails. It is a forwarding service provided exclusively to our UC San Diego Alumni to help fellow Tritons, friends and family stay in contact with you.UC San Diego graduates who have received Bachelors, Master’s and/or a Doctorate degree are eligible.The Alumni Email for Life service is strictly for our alumni. Please visit Keep a UCSD Address on Blink for details on staff/faculty email forwarding.You can continue using your existing student email address after you have graduated by connecting it to a non-UC San Diego email address. Sign up for Alumni Email for Life to link your address to a non-UC San Diego email address. You will start to receive mail to that address and will have the ability to send mail as your @ucsd.edu address through the non-UC San Diego mailbox. Please refer to your email service provider's for instructions to send mail as.Nope! All UC San Diego graduates who have received Bachelors, Master’s and/or a Doctorate degree are eligible for this free service.Log in or register for a UC San Diego Alumni account. Then go to "My Account" on the top right corner of the page. Click on “Alumni Email for Life” on the navigation panel to the left. Fill out the form and submit. It will take up to three business days to process. You will receive email notifications once the address is generated and ready to use.Yes, you will be able to change the email account it is linked to after your initial set up. It will take up to three business days to process before it takes effect. You can only link your @ucsd.edu email address to one email account at a time.No, this is only an email address that is linked to an existing email account (i.e. gmail, yahoo). You will not have access to a separate inbox. All messages sent to your @ucsd.edu address will be directed to your linked email account’s inbox.Once you activate your Alumni Email for Life address, all messages sent to your Alumni Email for Life address will be re-directed to the email address of your choice.In order to send mail as your new @ucsd.edu address, you will need to establish an alias or add additional address within your existing email account’s setting. You will receive your login information in your Alumni Email for Life confirmation email once your new address is generated. These login credentials will allow you to authenticate with an SMTP server and send emails from your @ucsd.edu address.After you link your Alumni Email for Life address to an email account, you can configure your email account (e.g. Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook or Apple Mail) to use an SMTP (or outgoing) server, using the provided login credentials. The provided credentials will allow you the option to send emails from your @ucsd.edu address or your existing email address.To do so, you will need to open your email client and specify smtp.ucsd.edu as your SMTP (or outgoing) mail server. Typically, the SMTP server information can be found in your email client under menu items called Options, Preferences, or Tools. You should use port 465 (SSL) or 587 (TLS).How to's for frequently linked email accounts. Gmail Once this has been configured, you will have the option to select which address you would like to send from. Many email service providers allow users to select a default address as well. Please check with your email service provider for more details.No, your @ucsd.edu address will only allow you to select one email account from which you can send and receive mail.No, graduates are assigned only one @ucsd.edu Alumni Email for Life address.No, you will receive a new @ucsd.edu email address which is generated based on the following campus naming conventions. If the first option isn't available, the next option is used:Please note: Recent graduates (Class of 2017+) and staff/faculty alumni can continue using their current @ucsd.edu email after leaving campus, but will need to link it to a personal email account.If you graduated earlier than 2017, the university unfortunately retired your student account. Student addresses were deactivated for a period of time before they were reissued to new students who fit the naming criteria. Your new @ucsd.edu email address will be generated based on your first, middle, and last name.Once your Alumni Email for Life address is generated, you will receive an email to your linked email address with your @ucsd.edu address inside it. If you no longer have access to this inbox or are unsure which inbox this email is stored in, please contact us at the Alumni Email for Life Support Form Your Alumni Email for Life email attachment size limit is based on your email service provider. Please check with your email service provider for size limitations.Your @alumni.ucsd.edu forwarding address will still forward emails to your selected mailbox. However, if you sign up for the new Alumni Email for Life service, you will be able to send and receive emails from your new @ucsd.edu address.You will still be able to receive mail from your @alumni.ucsd.edu forwarding address. The messages will be mailed to the email inbox that was chosen at the time. However, we will no longer be issuing new @alumni.ucsd.edu email addresses. If you need to update the email inbox that it is forwarding to, please contact us at the Email for Life Support Form and a staff member will assist you as soon as possible.If you would like to change the email account your Alumni Email for Life address is linked to after it has been generated, please submit your request here. If you are experiencing problems with Alumni Email for Life, please contact us at the Alumni Email for Life Support Form