IT Email Policies and Best Practices
Account Closures
- Students
- Withdrawals: Your account will be closed 30 days from the time that your account is
marked as withdrawn.
- Withdrawals: Your account will be closed 30 days from the time that your account is
marked as withdrawn.
- Alumni
- Email accounts are maintained for as long as Microsoft continues to provide our mail
service. Your login and primary address will change to username@alumni.skidmore.edu but your previous address, username@skidmore.edu will also continue to deliver email
to your Inbox. You will be moved to this new login 30 days after graduation.
- Faculty and Other Employees
- Based on information provided by Human Resources, an automatic process occurs and
your Skidmore account is closed 30 days later.
- Based on information provided by Human Resources, an automatic process occurs and
your Skidmore account is closed 30 days later.
- Retirees
- If you are an official retiree of the college, you may keep your email account into retirement. Retirees should log in with username@retired.skidmore.edu.
Automatic Emptying of Deleted Items
- Students: After an item has been in your Deleted Items folder for 14 days, the Exchange email server will remove them.
- Employees: After an item has been in your Deleted Items folder for 30 days, the Exchange email server will remove them.
Other Policies
Best Practices for Email
- Forwarding Skidmore email to another account
- Never forward any confidential or protected information to a personal email account.
Most personal email accounts do not have the privacy and security necessary to handle confidential
Skidmore information.
- Never forward any confidential or protected information to a personal email account.
Most personal email accounts do not have the privacy and security necessary to handle confidential
Skidmore information.
- Never use your Skidmore email account to setup a third-party account (such as Amazon,
iTunes, etc.)
- Never use your Skidmore email address and password to setup an external, third-party account. If your account gets compromised on these sites, you are putting all of your Skidmore account information at risk. Always use a third party email account (gmail, yahoo, roadrunner, Comcast, etc.) to create third-party accounts.