Yes, there is an email forwarding system that you can use. My friends and I usually keep our personal and school emails separate. But now I use Apple Mail, so I can just check all my email accounts in one go (without having to deal with the Cubmail interface).
I remember reading somewhere that we don't get to keep our Cubmail accounts as alumni but get alum email addresses somewhere. Not sure. I'm sure some more experienced member on this board will be able to help you on this one.
do the students actually use cub-mail or do a lot of them use another one and make all the e-mails forwarded to the other e-mail??
I used Pine, which is really convenient and fast, but might make you a nerd.
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also, do we get to keep our columbia e-mails after we graduate??
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I remember reading somewhere that we don't get to keep our Cubmail accounts as alumni but get alum email addresses somewhere. Not sure. I'm sure some more experienced member on this board will be able to help you on this one.
You get email forwarding for life, and the email address you had while a student is what you get for life. However, you lose your account shortly after graduation. So, I can tell someone to email me at abc123@columbia.edu and set it to forward to my yahoo/gmail/hotmail and receive the email there, but I can't send from that address.
I used Pine, which is really convenient and fast, but might make you a nerd.
you would be very hard pressed to find a current student who knows what Pine is. Its also extremely outdated.
They've recently upgraded cubmail and its faster and more reliable now. Its very useful when you aren't on your own computer and need to check your email.
I suggest using apple's mail program if you have a mac or outlook if you have a PC. Setup for both programs can be found here: Email Software Titles. With cubmail's IMAP interface you can control your mail as if you were using cubmail but you'd have a much nicer preference. Also for those of you out there with iphones, you can set you the iphone's mail program to receive mail from cubmail.
As for forwarding...I have my cubmail forwarded to a gmail account just to have an archive of every email i ever received..in case i delete something and want to retrieve it. I use outlook, apple mail or cubmail however and only use the gmail account when cubmail is down or when i need to find an email i deleted.
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I remember reading somewhere that we don't get to keep our Cubmail accounts as alumni but get alum email addresses somewhere.
you can get ur regular email forwarded and you can get an alumni account which is just a gmail account but instead of @********** its @???.columbia.edu ....i dont remember what the first part is.
if you dont like the interface but still want to use the columbia.edu address (as i did), have your cubmail forwarded to gmail and then change your gmail settings so that you can also send mail from gmail using your columbia address.
Do we get a lot of email through the Cub Mail? Like automatic updates from classes and all that jazz?
This totally depends on what mailing lists you sign up for, which professors you have, and other stuff. University-wide emails aren't that common. Most days, I don't get any mail in my CB inbox. Other days, I get a ton.
I probably got the most mail from the pre-med listserv, CUArts, and the Center for Career Education.
Most of my professors that used courseworks would often send us mass emails, as frequently as each week. I also got a lot of emails from my department.
Personally, I never used the cubmail interface unless I was on campus using a school computer. Mozilla Thunderbird!
Well, my total for this school year is running past 600 so yes, we do get a lot of email via Cubmail. But again, it all depends on which mailing lists you sign up for.
I remember the Career Center send me at least one email a week, and sometimes I would get two a day.
Students in classes also communicate with each other with their school email. You don't want to be giving that creepy dude with the mullet your personal email address.
i got 1500-2000 emails per semester, based on my archives. that's ~10-20 emails a day. wasn't on many mass distribution lists. I used my own email client, Eudora, on my desktop, but would readily use cubmail from computer labs and anywhere else. it's not that bad a system.
Pretty sure I received over a thousand emails last semester, considering I deleted 5-10 each day and finished the semester with about 500 in my inbox (which starts each semester empty from folderizing). I think most of my emails were from the pre-med thing, which get sent from the account of some Megan Rigney lady. But also a lot of professors email whenever they update anything on courseworks.
