<p>Once you begin college, do you plan to get rid of all your old e-mail addresses?</p>
<p>well i told everyone to send stuff to my berkeley email, but in reality I just changed the settings on my old email so that it forwards everything to my berkeley address. That way I get everything for sure.</p>
<p>no...because when I am done with college, then I would need to make a new one. Also, who would want to make sure everyone knew the new address, WAY too much of a hassle.</p>
<p>I have a good, permanent email (part of a paid-hosting website, checked through IMAP or with a web interface) which can keep serving me for a long time. I will simply set thunderbird to check both mine and the UChicago email and there will be no problems.</p>
<p>There really is no reason you have to use the school based email... In my case, my sbc account was about to expire anyways and I knew I needed to new email, so the one UCLA gave me was the logical pick.</p>
<p>I have to use my school address for "official correspondence" so I figured I might as well use it for everything.</p>
<p>What email accounts are you using as a forward? How long do you intend to keep them active?</p>
<p>what are you using for "unofficial" correspondence? Yahoo? Gmail? AOL? Hotmail?</p>
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I just changed the settings on my old email so that it forwards everything to my berkeley address
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Sounds like a plan :) How do you do this on Yahoo?</p>
<p>dont use yahoo...get a gmail account and then forward your school email to gmail (because of the webbased email, gmail has by far the best interface).</p>
<p>Or you could get a real email system and check it with a client like thunderbird or outlook (your school email will most likely do this)</p>
<p>I have my college account for official email-emails and for things that I am really passionate about. I kept my yahoo account just so I would have an email to enter at junk mail type places. No matter what site you use, it is wise to have a place to ship off email that doesn't matter.</p>
<p>i'd recommend keeping your alternate email address too</p>
<p>some colleges don't allow you to keep your college email after 4 years (or worse, they charge money for the privilege of doing so)</p>
<p>in which case, you'd have to move all your contacts back to another email address</p>
<p>what i'm doing is to use my school email for school purposes only and keep my other email address for friends/family/personal matters/etc etc</p>
<p>email is the worst, who cares</p>