Transitioning Your Services

This section provides details on transitioning from services that will expire when you leave the university. If you still have questions after reading this section, contact the Computing Services Help Center.

Archiving Email Messages

You can archive some or all of your email messages to a text file using Pine, Outlook (Windows) or Entourage (Mac). Instructions are provided within the documents noted below:

• Using Pine on Unix
• Outlook 2003 & 2007
  
• Entourage 2004 & 2008

Email Forwarding

Before your Carnegie Mellon email account expires, you may want to forward any residual Andrew e-mail to a new account, follow these steps:

1. Establish a new email account with your employer, or another service (e.g., AOL, Hotmail, etc.)
2. Visit the Carnegie Mellon Web Portal and set mail forwarding to your new email account. If you need additional help, read the Forwarding document.
   
   Note: After the expiration date, your Andrew account will no longer exist and thus will no longer be able to forward to your new account. To avoid losing important mail messages, begin using your new email address or your alumni address (see below) as soon as possible.

Alumni: Email Forwarding for Life

Carnegie Mellon alumni have access to a lifetime e-mail forwarding account via Alumni Relations. The alumni address is configured as "username@alumni.cmu.edu", reflecting your status as a Carnegie Mellon graduate. To take advantage of this benefit, visit the Carnegie Mellon Alumni member page.

Transferring Files from Andrew

If you've stored personal information, source code, or other information on your Andrew file space, you should save this information in a form in which you can take it to your next computing location. Retrieve any important files and store them elsewhere as soon as possible but before your expiration date. Follow these steps:

1. Delete any files that you don't want to keep. This will save time and make the process easier. If you have a large number of mail messages that you want to transfer, you'll probably want to save them into one large file rather than many small ones.
2. From a networked computer, use a file transfer program (FTP) to move any files directly to your computer's hard drive, removable media or to another storage location.

www.andrew.cmu.edu

If you've published any personal web pages, and if you want to remove them BEFORE they are automatically deleted (90 days for students or 21 days for others). Follow these steps:

1. Use a secure file transfer program to access your files on unix.andrew.cmu.edu.
2. If you want to, copy the files to another location on your local computer's hard drive or to removable media or another storage location.
3. Using a secure shell or telnet program, open a connection to unix.andrew.cmu.edu and login.
4. At the command prompt, type the following:
   touch www/.unpublish
5. Launch a web browser and visit http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/server/publish.html.
6. Select the Personal radio button for the type of web pages, enter your Andrew userID and click Publish.
7. To remove access from your directory on the server, use a secure shell or telnet program and connect to unix.andrew.cmu.edu.
8. At the command prompt enter:
   find www -type d -exec fs sa {} system:anyuser lookup \;

Last Update: 09/07/09