In Spring 2023, EVCP Ben Hermalin and CIO Jenn Stringer sent this campus-wide message about automatic email forwarding by Berkeley employees. Included in the message was a caution about not automatically forwarding Berkeley emails to other email accounts that may not have the same contractual data and privacy protections in place that we have for @berkeley.edu accounts. Starting in the Fall 2023, Berkeley is disabling the ability of users without an exception to automatically forward their email to another account. On Nov. 14, 2023, all Berkeley students, faculty, and staff who are automatically forwarding their email to non-Berkeley accounts, and who don’t already have an exception, will no longer have the ability to do so.
Find resources to help you navigate this change below, as well as information about why it is taking place.
Important steps to take now
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Use your UC Berkeley email for all university business -- for both sending and receiving.
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Turn off any automatic forwarding(link is external)(link is external) you may have set up that sends your Berkeley email to a non-Berkeley account.
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Use your UC Berkeley email for communication in all business systems, including those that do not require CalNet authentication.
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List your UC Berkeley email in the campus directory(link is external)(link is external), on your syllabus, etc.