Email Forwarding

CUIT allows you to forward your Columbia email to another address, with some limitations for security and reliability. Remember: Your email alias delivers mail to the same place as [email protected]. You should never forward your email to your email alias!

 

Forwarding from [email protected] is permitted for email addresses in the following domains. However, CUIT recommends that you have emails sent directly to these email addresses rather than forwarding to maximize the reliability of email delivery. For example, have your emails sent directly to [email protected] rather forwarding from [email protected].

  • adcu.columbia.edu
  • alumni.gsb.columbia.edu
  • barnard.edu
  • berkeley.columbia.edu
  • caa.columbia.edu
  • c2b2.columbia.edu
  • ciesin.columbia.edu
  • columbia-imc.org
  • columbia.london.edu
  • columbiauniversitypress.com
  • cumc.columbia.edu
  • facil.columbia.edu
  • facilities.onmicrosoft.com
  • gsb.columbia.edu
  • hku.columbia.london.edu
  • icg.cpmc.columbia.edu
  • iri.columbia.edu
  • ldeo.columbia.edu
  • london.columbia.edu
  • math.columbia.edu
  • nevis.columbia.edu
  • nyp.org
  • nyspi.columbia.edu
  • psych.columbia.edu
  • sipa.columbia.edu
  • stat.columbia.edu
  • tc.columbia.edu
  • theschool.columbia.edu
  • uts.columbia.edu
  • utsnyc.edu

FAQ

If you are a Barnard alum
  1. Barnard alumnae have access to Columbia Alumni Association benefits and services, including a CAA email address. To receive these benefits please complete this application form. 
  2. Forward your UNI to your CAA account (this is allowed because you are forwarding to an internal Columbia-affiliated email system).
  3. Log in to your alumnae account and follow the steps to set up manual forwarding to your personal email account. (Manual forwarding is allowed with the expectation that you will check your CAA account periodically to confirm that all your email is being properly forwarded to your personal account. If it is not, it's best to update your settings with that sender to send directly to your personal account.)
If you are a Teachers College alum
  1. If you don't have a TC Gmail address, follow the steps to activate your TC Gmail account or contact Teachers College Alumni Relations at 212-678-3215 to set yours up.
  2. Forward your UNI to your @tc.columbia.edu account (this is allowed because you are forwarding to an internal Columbia email-affiliated system).
  3. Log in to your TC account and follow the steps to set up manual forwarding to your personal email account. (Manual forwarding is allowed with the expectation that you will check your TC Gmail account periodically to confirm that all your email is being properly forwarded to your personal account. If it is not, it's best to update your settings with that sender to send directly to your personal account.)
All other alums
  1. If you don't have a CAA alumni email address, visit https://alumni.columbia.edu/content/alumni-email.
  2. Select Create or manage an account.
  3. Create an email account, which will provide you with an @caa.columbia.edu email account.
  4. Forward your UNI to your @caa.columbia.edu account (this is allowed because you are forwarding to an internal Columbia email system).
  5. Log in to your CAA account and follow the steps to set up manual forwarding to your personal email account. (Manual forwarding is allowed with the expectation that you will check your CAA account periodically to confirm that all your email is being properly forwarded to your personal account. If it is not, it's best to update your settings with that sender to send directly to your personal account.)

"Missing" emails like this are an unfortunate result of security measures that many companies use to prevent scammers from spoofing email from their addresses. This practice was begun by financial institutions, but is now used widely, including by some general email services like Yahoo and AOL. These measures ask that email be rejected unless it comes directly from the company’s authorized servers. Many email providers including Gmail, Yahoo, and AOL, honor the request as email comes in for their users. In these cases, when columbia.edu tries to re-send email based on your UNI Mail Forwarding setup in Manage My UNI, it fails. This security feature cannot be overridden by Columbia.

As a result, Columbia is disallowing the ability to forward your [email protected] to external email systems. The option to create new forwarding to email systems outside the University was removed. Existing forwarding will continue to function for the foreseeable future until an expiration date is set. UNI mail-forwarding to Columbia systems (Ex. [email protected] to [email protected] or [email protected]) will continue to be available.

If you currently use UNI Mail Forwarding -- or are unsure if your forwarding setup is allowed -- please refer to the table above or contact the CUIT Service Desk at (212) 854-1919.

As an alternative, you may set up forwarding from within your Columbia-affiliated Gmail email system (e.g. LionMail, CAA) or Microsoft 365 (CBS, Facilities). This is still subject to the same reliability limitations, but ensures delivery to at least one location that you can always check for missing emails.

Yes. Manually forwarding individual emails outside of Columbia email systems will not be impeded (CUIMC users should contact your email admins for details).