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07-12-2008, 08:14 PM
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#1 | | All-Star
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Ames, IA
Posts: 1,204
Credits: 1,099,616 Year: 2008 Degree: Exercise Science |
Does anyone know how long you can keep/use your ISU webmail after you graduate?
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07-12-2008, 09:00 PM
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#2 | | Bench Warmer
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 257
Credits: 10,065 |
I want to say it is six months, but don't hold me to that. I'm still in school and I think that came up somehow in a drunken conversation with my old roommate, so I could be a bit off with my information  |
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07-12-2008, 09:17 PM
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#3 | | Recruit
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: San Jose
Posts: 115
Credits: 838,208 Year: 08 Degree: EE MLB: Astros |
From what I remember, you get a 1 semester grace period. Then the following semester they'll close your account whenever they get around to it
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07-12-2008, 09:19 PM
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#4 | | Recruit
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ames
Posts: 99
Credits: 976,025 |
the six month thing sounds right. I just know I kept checking after I graduated and it was there, then I forgot about it for awhile and looked and I couldn't sign in. The two things I thought it might be are...
1. Six months and you are done with it.
2. A month or so without checking and you are done with it.
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07-12-2008, 09:29 PM
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#5 | | All-Star
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Ames
Posts: 1,664
Credits: 5,963 Year: 2010 Degree: B.M. Music Education |
Why would anyone want to keep using it after they graduate? It's an abysmal system that works poorly. I hope to high heaven they decide to farm it out to Google to run.
On that note, has anyone here configured Webmail to not only forward all email to Gmail, but also configured Gmail so that it "sends" through Webmail? (ie. I want someone to email me at my @iastate.edu, have it automatically sent to my @gmail.com, read it, write a reply in Gmail, hit send, and have the recipient see that it's from @iastate.edu.)
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07-12-2008, 09:30 PM
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#6 | | Prospect
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 41
Credits: 825,937 |
I used to work for the department that runs WebMail, and I think you can pay $25 or something to get an alumni account. Can also setup a forward to a gmail account or something.
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07-12-2008, 09:41 PM
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#7 | | Rookie
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ames, IA
Posts: 453
Credits: 909,605 Year: 2008 Degree: MIS NFL: Broncos NBA: Bulls MLB: Cubs |
Originally Posted by ornryactor  Why would anyone want to keep using it after they graduate? It's an abysmal system that works poorly. I hope to high heaven they decide to farm it out to Google to run.
On that note, has anyone here configured Webmail to not only forward all email to Gmail, but also configured Gmail so that it "sends" through Webmail? (ie. I want someone to email me at my @iastate.edu, have it automatically sent to my @gmail.com, read it, write a reply in Gmail, hit send, and have the recipient see that it's from @iastate.edu.) Yea its a option setting in gmail all you have to do is verify that its your account. not hard at all takes like 5 mins.
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07-12-2008, 09:50 PM
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#8 | | Bench Warmer
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: New Orleans, LA
Posts: 229
Credits: 703,193 |
I think you have access to webmail through the end of the next semester and then I think maybe it forwards for another semester after that (if you choose to). Setting it up to automatically forward to gmail was the best thing I ever did.
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07-12-2008, 10:30 PM
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#9 | | All-Star
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Ames, IA
Posts: 1,204
Credits: 1,099,616 Year: 2008 Degree: Exercise Science |
Alright, thanks everyone!
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07-12-2008, 10:45 PM
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#10 | | Prospect
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 56
Credits: 600,070 |
FAQ: I’m currently a student. What will happen to my email account when I leave Iowa State? : IT
When a student leaves Iowa State (graduation or withdrawal), the email account remains active for a time before being suspended and finally expired (deleted).
A student's account is suspended in the semester that is one year after the last semester they were enrolled in classes. For example, if a student last took classes in the spring of 2006, their account will be suspended during the spring semester of 2007. If the last semester the student was enrolled was in the summer, their account will be suspended the following spring semester.
More information there on what you can/can't do with a suspended account. The suspension lasts a semester before the account is deleted.
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