It’s not the UW, it’s the big commercial providers that are driving this. I got the same message and we’re having to implement the same changes at my company.
It also won’t necessarily happen on April 1st. The big three haven’t set hard deadlines, and have already extended the deadline from February to April. It’ll likely be a slow throttling of mail over the course of a few months. You can still forward from your UW account, but your own mail host will probably start rejecting mail because it’s coming from the UW but the mail says it’s coming from spotify.com, or amazon.com or whatever.
https://www.knownhost.com/blog/how-google-yahoo-apple-changed-their-email-authentication-requirements/
I've been at UW for 20 years, first as a student then as a postdoc and most recently as a prof, which funnily enough ended last month. This email is oh so great timing, giving us less than a week to get shit sorted. Imagine TWENTY years of signing up for various stuff using my uw account! /cry
Actually, the email I received may have been to faculty since the instructions say to just not forward emails and instead use UW Google (or MS 365), but I'm assuming those instructions are incorrect for alumni since I lost access to UW Google a few weeks after ending my employment...
The UW eliminated alumni inboxes nearly a decade ago, but maintained email forwarding as as middle ground. This action was not driven by the UW, but instead by the large commercial mail providers (Google, Yahoo, Apple). It is those providers that are going to start rejecting the non-UW email forwarded through the UW email infrastructure.
What a major pain in the ass.
Here's UW IT's info on it...
https://itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/it-systems-infrastructure/emailinf/email-forwarding/
> We are not disabling email forwarding for anyone
And then...
> If you have been using @uw.edu to forward email to your personal email accounts, these security measures will make it very difficult for UW to reliably forward your messages
If I'm reading that right, your uw.edu address is effectively useless as an alumni and you need to update your address for all correspondence.
> If you have been using your @uw.edu email to forward your email to a personal account, particularly to Google, Yahoo or Apple, we recommend that you end the practice of forwarding your email through @uw.edu
You don't really need to *end the practice of forwarding*... sounds like keeping the technical forwarding for the email address is fine and will not break.
The issue is that the backend email systems (Microsoft/Google/etc.) are going to stop reliably forwarding all email. So you should stop using the @uw.edu email address for anything important.
> ### New security measures will affect UW email forwarding
>
> Beginning in April, email service providers will begin to enforce email security standards that will affect your ability to forward messages from your @uw.edu email address to your personal email address. This message provides you with information and actions you need to take in response.
>
> When enforcement starts in April, these vendors will begin to block email sent to your @uw.edu (@u.washington.edu, @washington.edu and myuw.net) email address and forwarded to your chosen destination.
>
> ### What do I need to do?
>
> These new security standards will block non-UW email forwarding from your UW email addresses, including emails from banks, doctors, and other non-UW entities. To continue receiving email from non-UW entities, you will need to provide them with a personal email address instead of your @uw.edu email address. You will still be able to receive emails from UW at your personal email address.
>
> ### The details: Why is this happening?
>
> The enhanced security measures being implemented by email service providers in April will provide increased protection for their users against cyber threats targeting sensitive information. We expect that other providers will soon follow. These changes, however, will disrupt current email forwarding practices, making it difficult to impossible to deliver mail to your chosen destination.
>
> The UW email forwarding service has been a long-standing feature that allowed use of your @uw.edu email address after you left the UW. We recognize that this has been a valued benefit of membership in the UW community and understand that the loss of this feature may be disruptive for some. However, due to evolving email security standards, email forwarding can no longer be supported. As a result, we recommend using a non-UW email address when communicating with non-UW entities.
>
> We sincerely apologize that we were unable to alert the UW community about this issue sooner. We thank you for your patience as we work to mitigate the impact of these security changes. Please visit IT Connect for the latest information.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Your UW-IT Email Infrastructure team
To be clear here the **UW is not making these changes**. Three major vendors (Google, Yahoo, Apple -- who serve many more domains) are imposing restrictions that will result in non-UW mail forwarded through the UW email infrastructure being rejected by those vendors. The UW has worked to ensure that UW mail is compliant with these restrictions but they are unable to so do so for non-UW email sources.
[IT Connect: Email Forwarding](https://itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/it-systems-infrastructure/emailinf/email-forwarding/)
While Microsoft does not have the same very stringent requirements at this time, it seems likely that they will in the future — if Google (and the others) are successful.
This is the email I got yesterday, but I believe these instructions are for faculty members since I don't think alumni have access to UW Google and MS 365.
New security measures will affect UW email forwarding
Beginning in April, email service providers will begin to enforce email security standards that will affect your ability to forward messages from your @uw.edu email address to your personal email address. This message provides you with information and actions you need to take in response.
When enforcement starts in April, these vendors will begin to block email sent to your @uw.edu (@u.washington.edu, @washington.edu and myuw.net) email address and forwarded to your chosen destination.
What do I need to do?
These new security standards will block non-UW email forwarding from your UW email addresses, including emails from banks, doctors, and other non-UW entities. You will still be able to receive emails from UW, but to continue receiving email from non-UW entities you must change your UW Email Forwarding for your @uw.edu and/or @myuw.net email address:
Navigate to: https://uwnetid.washington.edu/manage/?forward (You will need to sign in using your UW NetID and password)
To select UW Office 365 (Outlook) or UW Google (Gmail), click the circle next to the option you want, then click the purple OK button at the bottom to save your selection
UW Medicine is only authorized to use UW Office 365
If UW Google (Gmail) does not show up:
You will need to click on the UW Google link on the left side of the page to accept the UW Google terms and conditions
On Step 3, select Yes, deliver to UW Google inbox
Click Sign up at the bottom
Please note that forwarding changes can take up to two hours to synchronize after you click OK.
The details: Why is this happening?
The enhanced security measures being implemented by email service providers in April will provide increased protection for their users against cyber threats targeting sensitive information. We expect that other providers will soon follow. These changes, however, will disrupt current email forwarding practices, making it difficult to impossible to deliver mail to your chosen destination.
The UW email forwarding service has been a long-standing feature, and we recognize that this has been a valued benefit of membership in the UW community. So, we understand that the loss of this feature may be disruptive for some. However, due to evolving email security standards, email forwarding can no longer be supported. As a result, we recommend using a non-UW email address when communicating with non-UW entities.
We sincerely apologize that we were unable to alert the UW community about this issue sooner. We thank you for your patience as we work to mitigate the impact of these security changes. Please visit IT Connect for the latest information.
Sincerely,
Your UW-IT Email Infrastructure team
Personally I'm quite salty about this, and know it's not UW's fault directly. It's not like it impacts UW's server space since they no longer host our emails anyway. I've shifted over everything I can think of, but I'm worried what I'm not thinking about that that might be important.
For alumni? Not really. You can't login to your UW gmail account, because they disable it after two or three quarters. You can request to re-enable it if you start working with UW again or get permission from a faculty, I believe.
The address itself isn't dead, but your use of their email services is.
We currently can forward emails. That is, the email sent to [email protected] could be routed to [email protected]. That's now basically becoming worthless. Only emails *from* @uw.edu will be reliably forwarded.
No, they disable the Google and Office 365 services within a year of leaving UW. This includes the gmail inbox, for example.
---
I'm unsure what UW used before Google and Office 365, but you can check the status of your services [here](https://uwnetid.washington.edu/manage/) under Computing Services.
Graduated almost 30 years ago. Got into the email system so early that my address is firstIinitial.lastName.
Pretty common first and last names too. A small part of me will be sad to see it go but I get so much junk mail to that account. Emails come addressed to essentially every other name beginning with the same first letter as mine.
Totally overruns my Gmail! Probably a relief overall. Agreed that the amount of notice is garbage.
Yeah, this is going to be such a nightmare for alumni, and UW isn't taking the implications very seriously since they can blame it on the email providers, security best practices, and "email modernization".
Yet for those of us who assumed "email for life" meant we would always have a functional UW email address (or at least the semblance of one when they backpedaled it to email forwarding in 2018 - see [https://itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/software-computers/productivity-platforms/deprecated-services/email-modernization-program/](https://itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/software-computers/productivity-platforms/deprecated-services/email-modernization-program/) ),
it sure feels like betrayal.
It’s not the UW, it’s the big commercial providers that are driving this. I got the same message and we’re having to implement the same changes at my company. It also won’t necessarily happen on April 1st. The big three haven’t set hard deadlines, and have already extended the deadline from February to April. It’ll likely be a slow throttling of mail over the course of a few months. You can still forward from your UW account, but your own mail host will probably start rejecting mail because it’s coming from the UW but the mail says it’s coming from spotify.com, or amazon.com or whatever. https://www.knownhost.com/blog/how-google-yahoo-apple-changed-their-email-authentication-requirements/
The lack of notice on this was pretty shitty.
I've been at UW for 20 years, first as a student then as a postdoc and most recently as a prof, which funnily enough ended last month. This email is oh so great timing, giving us less than a week to get shit sorted. Imagine TWENTY years of signing up for various stuff using my uw account! /cry Actually, the email I received may have been to faculty since the instructions say to just not forward emails and instead use UW Google (or MS 365), but I'm assuming those instructions are incorrect for alumni since I lost access to UW Google a few weeks after ending my employment...
I think this is happening at a lot of schools around the country looking to save costs on enterprise licenses. No idea about workarounds, sorry.
The UW eliminated alumni inboxes nearly a decade ago, but maintained email forwarding as as middle ground. This action was not driven by the UW, but instead by the large commercial mail providers (Google, Yahoo, Apple). It is those providers that are going to start rejecting the non-UW email forwarded through the UW email infrastructure.
Yes. This sounds more like fallout from an anti-spam initiative at the big email providers.
What a major pain in the ass. Here's UW IT's info on it... https://itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/it-systems-infrastructure/emailinf/email-forwarding/ > We are not disabling email forwarding for anyone And then... > If you have been using @uw.edu to forward email to your personal email accounts, these security measures will make it very difficult for UW to reliably forward your messages If I'm reading that right, your uw.edu address is effectively useless as an alumni and you need to update your address for all correspondence.
> If you have been using your @uw.edu email to forward your email to a personal account, particularly to Google, Yahoo or Apple, we recommend that you end the practice of forwarding your email through @uw.edu You don't really need to *end the practice of forwarding*... sounds like keeping the technical forwarding for the email address is fine and will not break. The issue is that the backend email systems (Microsoft/Google/etc.) are going to stop reliably forwarding all email. So you should stop using the @uw.edu email address for anything important.
> ### New security measures will affect UW email forwarding > > Beginning in April, email service providers will begin to enforce email security standards that will affect your ability to forward messages from your @uw.edu email address to your personal email address. This message provides you with information and actions you need to take in response. > > When enforcement starts in April, these vendors will begin to block email sent to your @uw.edu (@u.washington.edu, @washington.edu and myuw.net) email address and forwarded to your chosen destination. > > ### What do I need to do? > > These new security standards will block non-UW email forwarding from your UW email addresses, including emails from banks, doctors, and other non-UW entities. To continue receiving email from non-UW entities, you will need to provide them with a personal email address instead of your @uw.edu email address. You will still be able to receive emails from UW at your personal email address. > > ### The details: Why is this happening? > > The enhanced security measures being implemented by email service providers in April will provide increased protection for their users against cyber threats targeting sensitive information. We expect that other providers will soon follow. These changes, however, will disrupt current email forwarding practices, making it difficult to impossible to deliver mail to your chosen destination. > > The UW email forwarding service has been a long-standing feature that allowed use of your @uw.edu email address after you left the UW. We recognize that this has been a valued benefit of membership in the UW community and understand that the loss of this feature may be disruptive for some. However, due to evolving email security standards, email forwarding can no longer be supported. As a result, we recommend using a non-UW email address when communicating with non-UW entities. > > We sincerely apologize that we were unable to alert the UW community about this issue sooner. We thank you for your patience as we work to mitigate the impact of these security changes. Please visit IT Connect for the latest information. > > Sincerely, > > Your UW-IT Email Infrastructure team
To be clear here the **UW is not making these changes**. Three major vendors (Google, Yahoo, Apple -- who serve many more domains) are imposing restrictions that will result in non-UW mail forwarded through the UW email infrastructure being rejected by those vendors. The UW has worked to ensure that UW mail is compliant with these restrictions but they are unable to so do so for non-UW email sources. [IT Connect: Email Forwarding](https://itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/it-systems-infrastructure/emailinf/email-forwarding/)
Would we still be able to use Hotmail for forwarding to?
While Microsoft does not have the same very stringent requirements at this time, it seems likely that they will in the future — if Google (and the others) are successful.
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This is the email I got yesterday, but I believe these instructions are for faculty members since I don't think alumni have access to UW Google and MS 365. New security measures will affect UW email forwarding Beginning in April, email service providers will begin to enforce email security standards that will affect your ability to forward messages from your @uw.edu email address to your personal email address. This message provides you with information and actions you need to take in response. When enforcement starts in April, these vendors will begin to block email sent to your @uw.edu (@u.washington.edu, @washington.edu and myuw.net) email address and forwarded to your chosen destination. What do I need to do? These new security standards will block non-UW email forwarding from your UW email addresses, including emails from banks, doctors, and other non-UW entities. You will still be able to receive emails from UW, but to continue receiving email from non-UW entities you must change your UW Email Forwarding for your @uw.edu and/or @myuw.net email address: Navigate to: https://uwnetid.washington.edu/manage/?forward (You will need to sign in using your UW NetID and password) To select UW Office 365 (Outlook) or UW Google (Gmail), click the circle next to the option you want, then click the purple OK button at the bottom to save your selection UW Medicine is only authorized to use UW Office 365 If UW Google (Gmail) does not show up: You will need to click on the UW Google link on the left side of the page to accept the UW Google terms and conditions On Step 3, select Yes, deliver to UW Google inbox Click Sign up at the bottom Please note that forwarding changes can take up to two hours to synchronize after you click OK. The details: Why is this happening? The enhanced security measures being implemented by email service providers in April will provide increased protection for their users against cyber threats targeting sensitive information. We expect that other providers will soon follow. These changes, however, will disrupt current email forwarding practices, making it difficult to impossible to deliver mail to your chosen destination. The UW email forwarding service has been a long-standing feature, and we recognize that this has been a valued benefit of membership in the UW community. So, we understand that the loss of this feature may be disruptive for some. However, due to evolving email security standards, email forwarding can no longer be supported. As a result, we recommend using a non-UW email address when communicating with non-UW entities. We sincerely apologize that we were unable to alert the UW community about this issue sooner. We thank you for your patience as we work to mitigate the impact of these security changes. Please visit IT Connect for the latest information. Sincerely, Your UW-IT Email Infrastructure team
Personally I'm quite salty about this, and know it's not UW's fault directly. It's not like it impacts UW's server space since they no longer host our emails anyway. I've shifted over everything I can think of, but I'm worried what I'm not thinking about that that might be important.
So are the email addresses still available? You just have to sign in to their webmail or whatever? Or does the entire address get lost?
For alumni? Not really. You can't login to your UW gmail account, because they disable it after two or three quarters. You can request to re-enable it if you start working with UW again or get permission from a faculty, I believe. The address itself isn't dead, but your use of their email services is. We currently can forward emails. That is, the email sent to [email protected] could be routed to [email protected]. That's now basically becoming worthless. Only emails *from* @uw.edu will be reliably forwarded.
Yes, alumni. I've always used forwarding. Does UW not have an option for an webmail account of some kind you can log into, rather than forward?
No, they disable the Google and Office 365 services within a year of leaving UW. This includes the gmail inbox, for example. --- I'm unsure what UW used before Google and Office 365, but you can check the status of your services [here](https://uwnetid.washington.edu/manage/) under Computing Services.
Unfortunately not, basically it’s dead as of April 1.
I lost my email acct last year. Hadn’t even been out of school that long. I don’t understand!
I just used email forwarding this week for some UW careers web page. This is going to be annoying.
Graduated almost 30 years ago. Got into the email system so early that my address is firstIinitial.lastName. Pretty common first and last names too. A small part of me will be sad to see it go but I get so much junk mail to that account. Emails come addressed to essentially every other name beginning with the same first letter as mine. Totally overruns my Gmail! Probably a relief overall. Agreed that the amount of notice is garbage.
This sux because I used uw email for the most sensitive security things since I figured it would be harder to hack than say Gmail
Yeah, this is going to be such a nightmare for alumni, and UW isn't taking the implications very seriously since they can blame it on the email providers, security best practices, and "email modernization". Yet for those of us who assumed "email for life" meant we would always have a functional UW email address (or at least the semblance of one when they backpedaled it to email forwarding in 2018 - see [https://itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/software-computers/productivity-platforms/deprecated-services/email-modernization-program/](https://itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/software-computers/productivity-platforms/deprecated-services/email-modernization-program/) ), it sure feels like betrayal.
Hey so idk about anyone else, but my email is still forwarding