What is a life-long alumni email forwarding address??
Life-long e-mail is a forwarding service that allows you to keep your Bowdoin alumni e-mail address for life. As long as you keep PolarNet updated with your current primary e-mail address (whether it is an e-mail account at home, work or through an independent internet service provider), e-mail sent to your username@alumni.bowdoin.edu address will be routed to a forwarding e-mail server and then to you. This means that in addition to your primary e-mail server, the routing e-mail server will also apply industry-standard screening and filtering rules to your e-mail to protect you from spam (which accounts for the majority of e-mail traffic in today’s online environment), thereby increasing your risk of potentially valid e-mail being dropped, delayed or bounced back to the sender. Please consider this information when determining which e-mail address you provide for correspondence you consider critical (professional, financial, e-commerce, etc.).
