2008 Year End Information for Students

Expiration of Graduating Student Accounts

Students who graduate in May, 2008 will be able to continue using their law school accounts, including law school email, until December 1, 2008. At that time the accounts will be deleted.

Lifetime Alumni Email Address

The Duke Alumni Association offers you a lifetime email address that can be set to forward messages to the address you wish. This address does not use a mailbox, but is a way for you to give out an address without having to update your correspondents. You must have another valid email account to which you will forward messages. To learn more or create the Alumni account, visit http://www.dukealumni.com and select the link for "Member Services."

Automatic Deletion of Messages

Computing Services reminds all students that messages more than one year old are automatically deleted from your mailbox. To view options for saving those messages, please visit our page on message archiving.

Preserving GroupWise Mailbox Messages

You may chose among several options for preserving your GroupWise mailbox messages after your account expires in December.

Save the messages to individual files, in RTF format. Microsoft Word and most other word processing programs can read this format.
1. Select the messages you wish to save.
2. Select File | Save As.
3. The default file format is RTF.
4. Select Save.
5. Each messages will be saved as an RTF file with the subject heading as the file name. If more than one message has the same subject heading, you should change the name of the file by selecting it in the Save as window and entering a new name in the "Save file as" field before you select the Save button.
Use a POP or IMAP client, such as Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, or Macintosh Email to download your mail messages to a local mailbox. You can also do this on your Gmail account.

Exporting Your GroupWise Address Book

Open the address book within GroupWise.
Select File | Export.
Select whether to export the entire address book or selected items.
If you chose "selected items," use CTRL-CLICK to select the addresses you with to export.
Select the Virtual Card File (.VCF) format. This format can be imported by most email programs.
Name the file.
Select Save.

Forwarding Addresses

You are welcome to set your GroupWise account to forward to another email account. To do this, select Tools | Rules and create a new rule. For the action, select Forward and enter the address to which to forward your messages. Please note that forwarding will cease when your account expires in December.

Files on Network Share

Files on your network share will be permanently deleted when your account expires on December 1. Be sure to save any files you need to an alternate location. Visit our Netware information page for instructions on accessing those files.