Alumni Email Forwarding

Email forwarding is a great alumni benefit: it provides you with a single permanent Williams email alias where people can always reach you once you are an alum.

Email forwarding is not an email account—you will not be able to send messages from an @williams.edu address as a non-employee alum—but rather a way for friends and fellow alumni to continue to reach you via the email address you had as a student. 

For example, if your email address at Williams was abc3​@williams​.edu, your email forwarding address would be abc3​@alumni​.williams.edu.  If you provide a forwarding address, all email sent to abc3​@alumni​.williams.edu will be forwarded to that address.

Please email [email protected] to start this process or with questions about email forwarding with the following information:

  • Your name & class year
  • Your Williams email address
  • Your personal email address to receive the forwarded messages

  • Congratulations on your upcoming graduation! Please note the following changes that will happen on July 1 after your graduation:

    • If you have not registered for email forwarding, emails to your @williams.edu address will bounce back to the sender.
    • You will lose access to your Google Drive, Calendar, Photos, and emails in your @williams.edu inbox. Account data will be permanently deleted shortly after and will NOT be recoverable.
      (      For instructions on how to save/migrate Email and Google Docs please click here. Need help? Email OIT at stchelp​@williams​.edu or call (413) 597-3088.)

  • If you’ve changed your primary email address and would like your messages forwarded to a new inbox, please send an email to [email protected] requesting to change your email forwarding. Please provide the following information:

    • Your name & class year
    • Your Williams email address
    • Your OLD forwarding email address (gmail, protonmail, etc.)
    • Your NEW forwarding email address

    The Advancement Operations staff will assign a ticket, make the necessary changes to your account, and send a confirmation email once the changes are complete.

  • If you choose to cancel your email forwarding, please be sure to update your friends, professors, potential employers, acquaintances, etc, as any subsequent message sent to your @williams.edu or @alumni.williams.edu address will not reach you.

    To cancel email forwarding, please send an email to [email protected] indicating your request to cancel email forwarding, and provide the following information:

    • Your name & class year
    • Your Williams email address
    • Your forwarding email address

    The Advancement Operations staff will assign a ticket,  make the necessary changes to your account, and send a confirmation email once the changes are complete.