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I'm graduating this year but I'd really like to keep my St Andrews webmail account. Does anyone know if this is possible and how I can go about it? Thanks.

I believe we voted in a referendum that we should be able to keep our university e mail accounts after graduation, but I am not sure what has come of it. The best thing to do would be to speak to IT Services. I think you can, but as I said I'm not too sure.

It was not a referendum, it was a poll, a way to gague opinion.

The idea was to allow you to keep the address, and redirect all mail to an account you specified (hotmail or whatever).

The poll was in no way binding.

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The previous case would be that your account was held open until about October or so, when they were gradually closed down. I got mine extended for a year because I was still doing research for my department, but they seem to have forgotten about closing it down.

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...but then again, that is only my opinion.

I'd email helpdesk - that's probably the best way.

I graduated last June, and from my experience, my webmail is still running - not that I check it. All I ever get is spam. Amazing how much of that hits university accounts...

I think it'd be great if we could have some kind of alumni email service here: would probably be something I'd be willing to pay a little bit for, though I imagine some well placed advertising could make it self sufficient.

I know cambridge has @cantab.net and Oxford and Durham have something similar.

Any thoughts?

I would take the opportunity to get a new e-mail address. I still have my St Andrews one 2 and a half years after I graduated (as I still collaborate with St Andrews on research occasionally), and I don't even check it anymore as it gets so much spam. A new address won't be on spamming lists for at least a little while, and it is an easy enough thing to send a change of address e-mail to those that you want to be able to contact you. And as Gubbins says, your address will still work until probably about October (you will be warned before they delete it), so plenty of time to have a new one by then.

i graduated this year and i stopped being able to access my email this month.