Alumnae Email Accounts

All graduating students are issued a Mills College Alumnae email account. Alumnae accounts are "guaranteed for life" and do not expire after a certain amount of time. The only requirement to have completed at least 24 semester course credits at Mills and therefore be recognized by the college as an alumna of the college.

Alumnae email accounts are automatically generated in your last semester as a student. For example, if you are completing your degree requirements in the fall semester, your Mills alumnae account will be provided in the summer. Alternatively, if you are completing your degree requirements in the spring semester, your Mills alumnae account will be provided in the winter. In either case, you will receive an email from the ITS Helpdesk letting you know when it has been created. Please note that when your alumnae account is generated it does not affect your @mills.edu email account. Your @mills.edu email account will remain open until July 31st of the academic year that you are graduating in.

The format of your alumnae email account will be similar to your Mills student email account; your username will remain the same but the domain will be changed. For example, if your Mills student email address is smills@mills.edu, your alumnae email address will be smills@alumnae.mills.edu. The format of your alumnae address is permanent and is not customizable.

Alumnae accounts are accessible through any Google sign-in page. It is the same as your mills.edu account and has all of the same access to G-Suite features. As with your Mills student email account, you must use the complete email address as your Google username, i.e. smills@alumnae.mills.edu, and your Mills password.

Before using your alumnae email for the first time, you will need to reset your password so that all of your accounts will synchronize. You will not be able to log into your alumnae account until you have completed this step.

Please see our Password Information web page for help with setting or re-setting your password. 

Your Mills student email account will only remain active until July 31st of the year you graduate. At that time, your Mills student email account will be disabled and anyone who emails your @mills.edu address will receive a bounce-back notification stating that your Mills account is disabled. The message will not provide any information about an alternate way to contact you.

To avoid any confusion or issues with people not being able to contact you, ITS recommends that you:

• Begin using your alumnae address for all non-Mills communication as soon as possible during your final semester at Mills.
• Send email to all of your personal contacts notifying them of your new email address.
• Use your alumnae address for any graduate school or job applications.
• Update your account information where you have used your Mills address (e.g. banking, media sites, news lists, e-commerce) to your new alumnae email address.

If you would like to keep the email currently in your student Mills.edu account, we recommend that you use Google's Takeout feature to transfer your mail into another Google account.

Takeout does not transfer Trash or Drafts. Any labels you use in your student account will not transfer; all mail content will appear together under one label. Your Sent Mail will transfer but it will be included in the larger group of mail and will not be added to your alumnae account's Sent Mail label.

You will have the option to transfer your email as well as your Google Drive contents or to just transfer one or the other.

1. Log into your Mills student email account.
2. Click on your photo or your initial in the top right.
3. Select My Account.
4. On the Google Account page, under the Personal Info & Privacy section, select Control your content.
5. In the Download or Transfer Your Content section, you will see a Transfer Your Content box. Within that box, click on Start Transfer. If this does not work for you, go to Google Transfer.
6. Enter the destination account, meaning the account where you want your emails to go. It can be your @alumnae.mills.edu account or another personal account.
   • Please note that the ITS Helpdesk does affirm that this will work for transferring to another Gmail account, but cannot guarantee the process with a non-Gmail account.
7. Click Send Code.
8. Check your destination email for your confirmation code. The email will have a Get Confirmation Code button. Click that and retrieve your code.
9. Return to the transfer process to enter that code
10. Select the services you would like to transfer, i.e., Google Drive and/or Gmail. Then click Start Transfer.
11. You will receive another email in your destination account stating that your content is on its way. This process can take up to a week to transfer, depending on the amount of data you are transferring. You will receive another email when it is finalized.
12. A new label, ‘username@mills.edu’, will be created for you. This is where your transferred mail will reside.

You can also forward your future @mills.edu account emails to your @alumnae.mills.edu  account until your Mills student account is disabled after graduation.

• Follow Google's instructions for setting up forwarding.

If you would like to migrate the Google Contacts that you have in your student account, you will need to export them from your Mills student account and import them into your alumnae account.

• Follow Google's instructions for exporting contacts.
• Follow Google's instructions for importing contacts.

If you would like to migrate your Google Calendar content that you have in your student account, you will need to export your calendar from your Mills student account and import it into your alumnae account.

• Follow Google's instructions for exporting your calendar.
• Follow Google's instructions for importing your calendar.