Email Delivery Options (Alumni)
General information on email delivery can be found in our Delivery Options article.
This article applies to: Alumni and Visitors , Cornell Google Workspace for Students
Cornell NetID Email Address and Cornell Google Workspace (Gmail)
All graduating students keep their Cornell NetID email address.
Alumni with a Cornell Google email account can sign in at gsuite.cornell.edu. Cornell alumni Google email accounts have 5 GB of storage. Students who want to keep using their account as alumni must keep their storage below 5 GB. Accounts that have more than 5 GB will lose the ability to send and receive email until storage is reduced below 5 GB. If the account stays over 5 GB after warnings, it will be deleted,
Alumni who do not already have a Cornell Google account may request a Cornell Google email account.
Don't want Cornell Email?
Alumni who no longer wish to receive email at their cornell.edu address can request to have their account deleted. Fill out the Delete Cornell Email Account form to start this process.
Before deleting your email account make sure that you have all of the emails and files that you want to keep. Once disabled, any email sent to your Cornell email accounts will bounce, and you will not be able to access any mail currently in your mailbox. You will no longer be able to use your Cornell email address for password recovery.
All of these services will be affected as a result of deleting your Cornell email account:
Office 365 services including (but not limited to):
- Exchange/Outlook - deleted
- OneDrive - deleted
- Sharepoint - deleted
- OneNote - deleted
- Teams - removed
Cornell Google Workspace services including (but not limited to):
- Google Email - deleted
- Google Documents – deleted
- Google Groups Memberships - removed
- Google Play Purchases – loss of access and no reimbursement available
- Google Voice – service will not be available
- Google Wallet - service will not be available
- Google Authentication Services – sites that use "Sign in with Google" will no longer be accessible
- Google Scholar - deleted
Before deleting your email account make sure that you have all of the emails and files that you want to keep. You can use a commercial option such as VaultMe, or export your own Google Workspace content using Google Takeout.
Set Your Email Forwarding
Office 365
If you use Cornell Office 365, but do not have a Cornell Google Workspace email account, set up email forwarding using Outlook on the web.
Google Workspace
If you use Cornell Google Workspace (formerly known as G Suite or Cmail), and do not have an Office 365 account, set up email forwarding using Google’s settings.
If You Use Both Services
Incoming email will arrive at your Cornell Office 365 account first. If you want a copy of this email to go to your Google Workspace account you must set forwarding using Outlook on the web.
Change Your Preferred Name
If you would like to change the First and Last name that appears in the "From" field on your Cornell email, you can do so in Student Center. Once logged in:
- Go to Personal Information
- Click Names
- On the Preferred row click the pencil icon or Add a new name
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