Email: Forwarding Service for Alumni

Summary

Set up permanent email forwarding as a University of Louisville alum. After graduation, you can forward emails sent to your university address to a personal email account of your choice. This service is available to alumni who graduated in 1982 or later.

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Before You Begin

  • Once you sign up for email forwarding, your university email account is closed; and your account (as well as any emails in your university inbox) cannot be recovered.
  • Any emails in your university email inbox before you sign up for email forwarding are not forwarded to your personal email account after you sign up for email forwarding. Any emails in your university email inbox before you sign up for email forwarding are deleted and cannot be recovered.
  • Email forwarding is not available for alumni who graduated from the university prior to 1982.

 

Instructions

  1. Log in to Password and Account Management.
  2. Click My Profile.
  3. On the right side of the screen, find the Email for Life field. Click the drop-down menu and select Yes.
  4. In the Mail Forward field, enter the personal email address you want your emails forwarded to.
  5. Re-type your forward email address in the Confirm Mail Forward field.
  6. Click Save at the bottom of the screen.

 

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Article ID: 20180
Created
Fri 10/10/25 3:02 PM
Modified
Wed 7/1/26 1:22 PM

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