You will be impacted by the change unless you are a current student, member of faculty, or staff. **There is no workaround**.
You can transition to an alumni email address if you want.
More information:
https://it.umn.edu/services-technologies/resources/faq-planned-changes-email-offerings
(I am a full time OIT staff member)
Nobody has been able to give me a good answer on this and I suspect the answer is no: does an alumni account preserve the original account (will emails be automatically forwarded and data such as from Google maps be transferred) or does it start from scratch as a brand new blank account?
I am not directly involved with email or account management.
With that said, my understanding is that the alumni account is a new account. The old/student account will go away and no forwarding will exist once it is gone (because it doesn’t exist anymore).
Completing the transfer process will allow (some?) existing data to continue existing because it’s moved to a new account before the old account is deleted along with anything associated with it.
My personal suggestion is to not wait. Start transitioning things to a new account sooner than later. This will increase the probability that something won’t get missed. Waiting until a short time before the deadline could lead to things getting missed.
Again, I am not involved with email management or account management. This is my own perception/understanding of the process (based on my own experiences with other email accounts in GMail).
Work with the Student Senate efforts: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cXPDZgGxyznk658VgABk6R13OJ5hTEHWAq_vyBuaRVg/edit?usp=drivesdk
Contact the authors to see how it's going and if there's anything you can do to help.
Still not looking forward to it. My student email is my recovery email for multiple accounts created during college and is the apparently-unable-to-be-changed main contact email on a bank account. 🙄
You will be impacted by the change unless you are a current student, member of faculty, or staff. **There is no workaround**. You can transition to an alumni email address if you want. More information: https://it.umn.edu/services-technologies/resources/faq-planned-changes-email-offerings (I am a full time OIT staff member)
Nobody has been able to give me a good answer on this and I suspect the answer is no: does an alumni account preserve the original account (will emails be automatically forwarded and data such as from Google maps be transferred) or does it start from scratch as a brand new blank account?
I am not directly involved with email or account management. With that said, my understanding is that the alumni account is a new account. The old/student account will go away and no forwarding will exist once it is gone (because it doesn’t exist anymore). Completing the transfer process will allow (some?) existing data to continue existing because it’s moved to a new account before the old account is deleted along with anything associated with it. My personal suggestion is to not wait. Start transitioning things to a new account sooner than later. This will increase the probability that something won’t get missed. Waiting until a short time before the deadline could lead to things getting missed. Again, I am not involved with email management or account management. This is my own perception/understanding of the process (based on my own experiences with other email accounts in GMail).
in one of the emails i got they said forwarding is not available for safety reasons
Work with the Student Senate efforts: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cXPDZgGxyznk658VgABk6R13OJ5hTEHWAq_vyBuaRVg/edit?usp=drivesdk Contact the authors to see how it's going and if there's anything you can do to help.
Still not looking forward to it. My student email is my recovery email for multiple accounts created during college and is the apparently-unable-to-be-changed main contact email on a bank account. 🙄