Forwarding Setup & Activation

• Creating an alumni.harvard email forwarding address
• Changing your alumni.harvard address
• Changing your forwarding destination

alumni.harvard email forwarding addresses can be created and modified from your alumni.harvard user profile page.  You will need your HarvardKey login name and password in order to access this page.  When setting up or changing your alumni.harvard email forwarding address, please keep the following points in mind:

• You must activate forwarding in order to use your alumni.harvard email address.  If the "Enable email forwarding" box is unchecked, any messages sent to your alumni.harvard email forwarding address will bounce back as undeliverable.
• Any time you create or make a change to an alumni.harvard email forwarding address or make any changes to your forwarding settings, it will take about 2-3 hours for the changes to take effect.
• Each alumnus/alumna can have only one alumni.harvard email forwarding address, which can forward to only one destination.

Creating an Alumni.Harvard Email Forwarding Address

1. Log in to the alumni.harvard.edu community using your HarvardKey login name and password.
2. Click on the Email Forwarding link in the left hand navigation.
3. Click on the "Edit" box. Check the "Enable email forwarding" box.
4. Enter your handle (the part that comes before the @ sign) in the "Emails sent to" box.
5. Select the address where you would like emails to be forwarded from the "Will be forwarded to" dropdown.
6. Click "Save."

After taking these steps, it will take about 2-3 hours for your alumni.harvard email forwarding address to become active.

Changing Your Alumni.Harvard Email Forwarding Address

alumni.harvard email addresses can be changed by visiting the alumni.harvard Email Forwarding Page after logging in with your HarvardKey login name and password and changing your handle in the "Emails sent to" box.  

Any changes to your alumni.harvard email address will take about 2-3 hours to take effect, after which your previous address will no longer be valid.  Please be sure to notify your contacts of the change in email address.

Your alumni.harvard email address is independent from your login name, so changing your email address will not affect your login.

Changing Your Forwarding Destination

After setting up an alumni.harvard email address, you can set it to forward to a new destination.  To change your forwarding destination address:

1. Log in to the alumni.harvard.edu community using your HarvardKey login name and password.
2. Click on the Email Forwarding link in the left hand navigation.
3. Click on the "Edit" box. Select a different email address from the "Will be forwarded to" dropdown.
4. Click "Save."

After taking these steps, it will take about 2-3 hours for mail to be re-directed to your new address.  We strongly recommend that you update your forwarding settings and confirm that mail is being forwarded to your new destination address before cancelling the account to which mail is currently being forwarded.

Still need help?  Contact the HAA Help Desk.