Information for Graduating Seniors
Graduating Senior Accounts: User accounts for graduating seniors will be kept active through September 30, 2004. After that date, the accounts will be locked and scheduled for removal. If you are planning on continuing your education in a graduate program here at Union, you must submit a new Application for Computer Account (AFCA) at the beginning of fall term which indicates your change in status . This will ensure that your account is not deleted with the rest of the Senior accounts. AFCAs can be obtained at Information Technology Services.
If you are not returning to Union College, you should begin moving your email to a new account immediately. Do not apply for employment or graduate school using your current Union College email address. Sometimes these types of application procedures can take months. You don't want to chance missing important emails while you transition to a new address.
Alumni Email Accounts: The Office of College Relations offers, as one of many services to Alumni, a free lifetime email account. For more information go to: http://www.union.onlinecommunity.com/suemail.html or send email to alumni@union.edu.
Information for Returning Students
Cleaning up your account: The end of the academic year is a good time to clean up your idol account. Log into your idol account, and remove unwanted/unneeded files using the "rm" command. If you are a webmail user, you should clean out your mail folders (especially the "sent-mail" folder), and remove unwanted "sent-mail" folders that you may have saved previously. Keeping your inbox small by saving messages to other folders is also a good idea. This will ensure that you do not exceed your user quota, and will help keep the overall system disk utilization down. If you need help logging in to your idol account, using Unix commands, checking your quota, or accessing your email with webmail, you can stop by Information Technology Services to pick up some helpful Unix 'HOW-TO' sheets, webmail 'HOW-TO' sheets or you can access help via the Web at http://acaddocs.union.edu/HOW_TO.HTML.
Forwarding email: You may want to have your Union mail forwarded to another email account for the summer. To do this, you'll need to log into webmail and set up a forwarding address. If you need help setting up an email forward, you can access help via the Web at http://acaddocs.union.edu/HT_FORWARD_EMAIL.pdf.
Unsubscribing from listservs: If you are not planning on reading your
email throughout the summer, it would be a good idea to unsubscribe from any
email listservs that you may be on. Instructions for doing this are usually
included with any email that comes to you from the list. This usually requires
that you send a message to the listserv with the word "unsubscribe" in the
subject line or body of the email.
If you have trouble removing yourself from an email list, contact Information
Technology Services for assistance.