UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored
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Re: UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored
#2You can import all of your emails into gmail. It can take a few days or more. Then just empty the mailbox.
Re: UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored
#3Same thing happened at UofMichigan. Luckily, they gave us 15gb and most of my storage over that was from photos, but i had 100s of gigs. So I had to scramble to move them all to an external harddrive using google takeout, which itself was a huge PITA, mainly because the UI is so horrible it required me to manually click download on every individual 5gb zip.
Re: UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored
#4You can import all of your emails into gmail. It can take a few days or more. Then just empty the mailbox.
Or thunderbird for more portability - Create a free Proton.me and pipe them into that.
(Although I think @berkeley.edu is likely the most famous .edu? (because of BSD and all the man pages?))
Re: UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored
#5Good. This shouldn't be a limitless service. There are costs involved and it is nice they offer alumni email accounts at all.
Re: UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored
#6I'm worried about this happening at my alma mater.
Under protest by the people managing the service, the university administration switched from a locally hosted service to the microsoft suite.
Now that there's a (probably very large) line item in the bill from MS to support email for people who don't pay tuition, there's got to be pressure from the beancounters to just drop the perk.
Re: UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored
#7You can import all of your emails into gmail. It can take a few days or more. Then just empty the mailbox.
Or thunderbird for more portability - Create a free Proton.me and pipe them into that. (Although I think @berkeley.edu is likely the most famous .edu? (because of BSD and all the man pages?))
> (Although I think @berkeley.edu is likely the most famous .edu? (because of BSD and all the man pages?))
Your average random is more likely to have heard of Harvard or MIT than Berkeley
I’m Australian. I think most educated Australians have heard of Harvard. You don’t even have to be “educated”, maybe you just saw The Social Network (or one of several other popular films featuring Harvard). How many Australians have heard of University of California at Berkeley? I think far less.
If you are an American who watches Fox News, you would have seen numerous stories about Harvard over the last 12 months. How many stories has Fox News run about Berkeley in the same period?
MIT is probably somewhat less famous than Harvard, but still vastly greater odds a random person who has lived their whole life on the other side of the planet has heard of it than Berkeley.
Berkeley is somewhat famous in the software field, but the vast majority of people have nothing to do with software development and hence know nothing about it
Re: UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored
#8Good. This shouldn't be a limitless service. There are costs involved and it is nice they offer alumni email accounts at all.
The correct thing to do is to send a 552 5.2.2 Mailbox full [0][1], not to delete the account. Email account quota is a standard feature of mail servers.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMTP_server_return_cod...
Re: UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored
#9The University of Oklahoma wiped out all alumni email accounts a couple of years ago (after explicitly promising they would be retained), regardless of data stored. Didn't affect me too much but it still struck me as an extremely shortsighted move - cut off contact with any professors or peers who only had your school address just to save on a couple of mail servers.
Re: UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored
#10Stupid question: why don't they just offer to let Alumni pay for their content storage?