If you only have a few email messages you want to keep, forward them to a non-UB email account.

If you have numerous messages or folders of messages you want to save, we recommend copying them to your personally owned computer using an email client, such as Mozilla Thunderbird. 

Contact your Department's IT support staff for assistance.

Save email contacts you want to keep so you can import them into a non-UB email account.

• If you use the Web version of UBmail (ubmail.buffalo.edu):
  1. Log in to UBmail
  2. Click Address Book.
  3. Click Export.
• If you use Thunderbird:
  1. Click Address Book.
     
  2. Select your address book.
     
  3. Select Tools > Export... 
  4. Under Save as Type, select Comma Separated.
     
  5. Choose a location, such as your Desktop, and a file name.
  6. Click Save.

If your email is on UBmail Powered by Google and you use Google Drive  (Google Docs ), you can save your files to a personal storage device.

If you use UBfs Myfiles, you can save your files to a personal storage device.

Once your UBITName is deactivated, it cannot be reactivated for reasons such as changing an email forward.

If you are eligible to keep your email, such as with graduation, we recommend you do so. If not, if you must use a forward, use an account that you will not lose for any reason -- for example, set up a gmail account.