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Alumni Using Personal Gmail Accounts

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This article pertains to alumni who graduated on or before August 2022, and already have a Cornell-sponsored Gmail account. This service was formerly known as Cmail. (Alumni graduating in December of 2022 and forward will transition from Gmail to Office 365.)

When logging in to your Cornell G Suite account, you will use CUWebLogin (not Google Sign-In) with your NetID@cornell.edu address and password.

Currently, alumni users of Cornell G Suite are not required to use Two-Step Login, but are allowed to enroll to get additional security for their Cornell G Suite account. After enrolling in Two-Step Login, new alumni users should be sure to follow the steps at Expand Where You Use Two-Step Login.

Some people have asked whether they can use a personal Gmail account (with an address like phil.schmertz@gmail.com) but have the messages appear to come from their Cornell address. The short answer is no. This is known as spoofing and it's a bad thing, even if intended harmlessly. Various email systems look for evidence of spoofing and may block messages and the accounts sending them. Neither Google nor IT@Cornell support this practice.

To summarize: if you want to send email that looks like a Cornell account, send it from your Cornell account.

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