Timeline for Does it matter which email I use to write to professors?
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| Jul 17, 2022 at 19:40 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @AzorAhai-him-: It's not that odd; if an IT department at one university has a problem that allows spammers to abuse it, other admins (especially of non-universities) will often be willing to block incoming mail from the whole domain temporarily, especially if it happens via an automated blacklist. But gmail is huge and so widely used that it's probably "too big to blacklist" for most blacklist maintainers and server admins. Also, probably has faster-reacting admins and more oversight, so spam sent via gmail's own servers is from actual accounts, not some pwned machine on a uni network. | |
| Jul 17, 2022 at 17:38 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- |
It's an odd guess to make that .edu addresses are more likely to be flagged than @gmail.com.
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| Jul 16, 2022 at 17:59 | comment | added | KCd | @heroic-harmonic you are not an official student at Y earning a degree there, but only at Y for the summer program. (And you are not an alumnus of Y just for having spent a summer there.) Do not count on really having access to Y's email system after the summer. You wrote that the access is "supposedly available", so it looks like you also are not absolutely certain of post-summer access. Perhaps you misunderstood how it will work. And the IT group at Y could decide at any time to close the "alum" email accounts to people who are not real alumni. | |
| Jul 15, 2022 at 9:09 | comment | added | Sabine | @heroic-harmonic I wouldn't count on a mail sent to [email protected] to be forwarded to [email protected], at least not "for an indefinitely long period of time". | |
| Jul 14, 2022 at 23:23 | comment | added | stoic-santiago | The account at my home university X won't be available after I graduate, but the one I have from Y is supposedly available for an indefinitely long period of time (although they just replace the "student" with "alum" in their domain name. That being said, I can reliably receive email at Y for longer. I believe (3) is the real issue here, though! | |
| Jul 14, 2022 at 23:16 | history | answered | Thomas Steinke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |