About IU Alumni Association email accounts

• Overview
• Your email address
• Set up your account
  • Eligibility
  • Create an account
  • Access your account
  • Set a password
  • Set up two-factor authentication
• Set temporary forwarding from your IU email account to your IUAA account
• Maintain your alumni email account
  • Reset your password
  • Change your alumni email username
  • Forward your alumni email to another account
• Security and privacy issues
• Get help
• Learn more

Overview

The Indiana University Alumni Association (IUAA) offers email to current students and alumni. An alumni email account lets you maintain your connection to IU.

You must log in to your alumni email account at least once every 365 days so the account is not considered dormant. If you sign up for an alumni email account, you will receive email messages from the university, but the IUAA honors requests to limit communications and solicitations.

Your IU email account won't be accessible after it's been inactivated, which happens two semesters after you graduate (including summer term). If your account is inactive, you cannot retrieve messages from your IU email account. You can forward your email to another account until your account becomes inactive, but you'll stop receiving messages (including forwarded messages) once the two semesters without enrollment are over.

Your email address

Your alumni email address is username@alumni.iu.edu. If you wish, you can use your IU student username (if available) as your alumni email username. If you don't remember your IU username, or didn't have one, you can generate a new one; you can also request an alias if a life event requires a change of username.

For help, email advhelp@iu.edu or call 812-856-2746.

Set up your account

Eligibility

Only current students, graduated alumni, and IU Alumni Association Life Members are eligible to create Alumni email accounts. Current and former employees, and former students who did not graduate, are not eligible for Alumni email accounts. If you have eligibility questions, email advhelp@iu.edu or call 812-856-2746.

Create an account

To request an account, go to Alumni Email Account.

Access your account

When you sign up for an alumni email address, you'll receive an email message at your alternate email address with instructions for accessing the alumni email service. For help, email advhelp@iu.edu or call 812-856-2746.

Go to https://mail.google.com/a/alumni.iu.edu, and then enter your email address and password.

Set a password

If you have updated your account with an alternate email address, select Forgot Password? on the alumni email login page. For help, email advhelp@iu.edu or call 812-856-2746.

Set up two-factor authentication

To set up two-factor authentication on your Gmail account, see the instructions at Turn on 2-Step Verification.

Set temporary forwarding from your IU email account to your IUAA account

After separating from IU, students can forward mail from username@iu.edu for one year by creating an alumni email account, and then setting up forwarding so that messages sent to your iu.edu email address arrive in your alumni email account inbox. UITS encourages you to set your forwarding to go to your alumni account, as mail will not be delivered to your IU student email account indefinitely.

To set up email forwarding:

1. Create your alumni email account and log into it, as described above.
2. Request forwarding at Alumni Account Registration.
   Note:

   If you have difficulty with the form, contact Tier 2 from your alumni email account, and ask to have mail forwarded from your iu.edu email addresses to your alumni account. Make sure to include your full email address in this request (for example, username@alumni.iu.edu), as your alumni email account username may be different from your IU username.
3. Create a redirect rule in Exchange.

You may also transfer your Exchange account files and messages to your IU Alumni Association account or another Google account. For instructions, see Keep your Exchange account email messages and calendar appointments when leaving IU.

If you do not create an alumni email account, then you will no longer receive mail sent to your IU email addresses. Additionally, you will not be able to forward mail from your IU email addresses to a personal email account.

Maintain your alumni email account

Reset your password

If you have updated your account with an alternate email address for password recovery, go to https://mail.google.com/a/alumni.iu.edu, select Sign In, and then Forgot Password? For help, email advhelp@iu.edu or call 812-856-2746.

Change your alumni email username

If a life event requires a change to your username, you can request an alias.

To change your alumni email username on a Gmail address, email advhelp@iu.edu or call 812-856-2746.

Forward your alumni email to another account

To set up mail forwarding to another email account, see Automatically forward Gmail messages to another account.

Security and privacy issues

The University Information Policy Office (UIPO) maintains a number of policies regarding the use and misuse of Indiana University's computing resources; for more, see Avoid getting in trouble with email.

For more about the privacy of your personal data, see Privacy information for Google at IU accounts.

Get help

The IUAA cannot provide device-specific support to help you set up your alumni email account on your computer or mobile device. To learn about setting up a Gmail account on your computer or mobile device, search the help topics at https://support.google.com.

Learn more

Alumni email does not enable access to IU systems, but some IU resources are made available to alumni through the IUAA. To learn more about IUAA alumni resources, visit My IU Alumni Resources.