Keeping your email after graduation depends on your degree conferral date and your decision on whether to opt in with the Alumni Association.

if you graduated starting June 1998, you are eligible to keep your @buffalo.edu email address through an offer from the UB Alumni Association.

• You graduated June 1, 2009 or later:
  Sign up with the Alumni Association to continue using your buffalo.edu email address.
  
• You graduated January 1998 to April 2009:
  Sign up with the Alumni Association to continue using your buffalo.edu email address.

If your email is on UBmail, your account may eventually be moved to UBmail Powered by Google.

If you graduated prior to June 1998 or you declined the offer by the UB Alumni Association:

• Access your email and manage your forwarding as usual for 6 months after your official degree conferral date. Within that six months you may set a forward for your email:

1. Establish an email address with a commercial provider, such as Hotmail.
2. Sign up for a free lifetime forwarding email address with the Alumni Association.
   
3. Notify your contacts of your new email address.
4. Enable email forwarding to your new address. If you set a forward directing your incoming email be delivered to an account with another provider, email sent to your @buffalo.edu address is received at the forward address but you are not able to change your forwarding.
   

• If you have not forwarded your UBmail to another provider, email sent to your @buffalo.edu address is returned to the sender as undeliverable six months after your degree conferral date.

After 6 months you can no longer access your UBIT account.