email address after switching to google

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<p>I'm still using only mail.ucla.edu as my ucla email, but I have a question about switching to g.ucla.edu</p>

<p>Will my current address of <a href="mailto:uclacee@ucla.edu">uclacee@ucla.edu</a><a href="not%20my%20real%20ucla%20username">/email</a> still be valid after I switch to g.ucla.edu, or will I have to use a different address?</p>

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<p>bringing this up…</p>

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<p>When you switch your email to the g.ucla.edu domain, then all emails that would be sent to your @ucla.edu email will simply be forwarded to your g.ucla.edu email.</p>

<p>You won’t be able to log in to your @ucla.edu email after a certain period of time though because it will be deactivated eventually.</p>

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<p>is it okay to not switch?</p>

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<p>If you don’t switch and transfer all your content to your g.ucla.edu account, then your original @ucla.edu account will be deactivated/deleted and you will lose all content and will have no access to it any longer.</p>

<p>The @ucla.edu is suppose to be for current students only. The g.ucla.edu is for alumni. You cannot use the @ucla.edu forever. Mine expired about 6 months after I graduated.</p>

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<p>Here’s the deal with email (I activated Google Apps a couple months ago and I graduated over a year ago):</p>

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<li><p>Google Apps for UCLA is available for students and alumni (and retirees). If you’re in any of those groups, activating Google Apps will create a new account: <username>@g.ucla.edu. Within 2-3 days of activating, you will be able to <em>send</em> and <em>receive</em> email as <username>@ucla.edu through the Gmail interface. In fact, this will automatically become the default account for sending email without you having to do anything.</username></username></p></li>
<li><p>If you graduate without activating Google Apps first, then you have the option of activating Google Apps, or turning on lifetime email forwarding to an account of your choice. I think Google Apps is the better choice because then you can send as your <username>@ucla.edu address, but here’s the link for forwarding: <a href=“https://www.bol.ucla.edu/cgi-ssl/accounts/setforward[/url]”>https://www.bol.ucla.edu/cgi-ssl/accounts/setforward&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/username&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
<li><p>You still have access to your BOL email for about a month after activating Google Apps. There are instructions at g.ucla.edu about how you would go about transferring your email.</p></li>
<li><p>You can send as <username>@ucla.edu on your mobile device after activating Google Apps. g.ucla.edu has instructions for that, too.</username></p></li>
<li><p>All of the above statements are true regardless of whether you’re a student or an alumnus.</p></li>
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<p>UCLA did a (surprisingly) good job of setting up an FAQ for all of this; I recommend taking a look at it.</p>