BuckeyeMail Changes: Information for Alumni

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2024-11-21 14:30:03

Email has evolved significantly since Ohio State first introduced these services over 25 years ago. To ensure smooth operations and to keep pace with technological advancements, we have periodically updated our services. . In June, we began informing email users that email forwarding to third party email services would be ending on December 31, 2024.  After much consideration of alumni feedback and industry best practices, the university will also discontinue Ohio State’s “BuckeyeMail for Life” service on April 1, 2025.

In the past The Ohio State University has provided lifetime email forwarding for alumni. As third-party service providers - including but not limited to Gmail, Spectrum, Yahoo!, Apple, and others - have tightened email security controls, more and more of these forwarded email messages are not being received by alumni.  It’s also affecting Ohio State’s ability to send emails directly to alumni as more of the forwarded emails are looked at as spam by third party providers.  Because of these external issues causing major deliverability issues, lifetime email forwarding service will be discontinued on Dec. 31, 2024.

This change means that emails sent to a lastname.#@osu.edu email accounts will no longer be automatically forwarded to outside third-party accounts after Dec. 31, 2024.  

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