St. John's email trouble logging in?

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ADORAZ

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I received a St. John's email address in 2012 as a grad student and have used it as a secondary email to my main email since. I use it for sites/email chains where I don't want to use my main email and I don't have any other way of receiving those messages.

It seems St. John's changed servers several weeks ago and now I can't log in. Is anyone else having this issue? I tried "forgot password" and all that and nothing is working. Thanks.

Edit: I can sign in to mysju using my St. John's email, but when I click on "Student Email" I can no longer sign in. Very frustrating. I can access everything except my actual email.
 
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UPDATE: after calling St. John's IT and being on hold for an hour, it turns out St. John's removed ALL email access from graduates who have been alumni for at least 1 year. The IT guy was nice and said someone else would get back to me, but this is ridiculous! There was no warning or anything. I just gave out my St. John's email to a few dozen friends/family because I want to keep my main email for other tasks. How are they just going to pull the plug without even a warning??
 
Since you brought it up I might as well ask. When I graduated I never once thought of using my SJU emails. I think even in grad school I used gmail the whole time. I have one close friend who went to Gtown actually who still uses his Gtown email and to be honest it kind of confused me why he always did. I understand juggling a few emails for certain sales type emails and such but me personally managing 1 work and 2 personal is enough.
 
[quote="Moose" post=395975]Since you brought it up I might as well ask. When I graduated I never once thought of using my SJU emails. I think even in grad school I used gmail the whole time. I have one close friend who went to Gtown actually who still uses his Gtown email and to be honest it kind of confused me why he always did. I understand juggling a few emails for certain sales type emails and such but me personally managing 1 work and 2 personal is enough.[/quote]

My job is my YouTube channels (YouTuber) and since YouTube is owned by Google I use my Gmail for work/YouTube tasks now. I've actually had my Gmail since 2005 and have only been working as a YouTuber since 2015, so recently I've stopped using my Gmail for non-YouTube activities and transitioned my contact list over to my St. John's email. In other words my personal email became my business email and I want a 100% personal one again.

I could get a Yahoo or something but thought the St. John's email sounded better.
 
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[quote="Adam" post=395977][quote="Moose" post=395975]Since you brought it up I might as well ask. When I graduated I never once thought of using my SJU emails. I think even in grad school I used gmail the whole time. I have one close friend who went to Gtown actually who still uses his Gtown email and to be honest it kind of confused me why he always did. I understand juggling a few emails for certain sales type emails and such but me personally managing 1 work and 2 personal is enough.[/quote]

My job is my YouTube channels (YouTuber) and since YouTube is owned by Google I use my Gmail for work/YouTube tasks now. I've actually had my Gmail since 2005 and have only been working as a YouTuber since 2015, so recently I've stopped using my Gmail for non-YouTube activities and transitioned my contact list over to my St. John's email. In other words my personal email became my business email and I want a 100% personal one again.

I could get a Yahoo or something but thought the St. John's email sounded better.[/quote]

Might be dumb question but can you have 2 different gmails? I have a gmail, yahoo (mostly fantasy sports related) and work email myself.
 
[quote="Moose" post=395992][quote="Adam" post=395977][quote="Moose" post=395975]Since you brought it up I might as well ask. When I graduated I never once thought of using my SJU emails. I think even in grad school I used gmail the whole time. I have one close friend who went to Gtown actually who still uses his Gtown email and to be honest it kind of confused me why he always did. I understand juggling a few emails for certain sales type emails and such but me personally managing 1 work and 2 personal is enough.[/quote]

My job is my YouTube channels (YouTuber) and since YouTube is owned by Google I use my Gmail for work/YouTube tasks now. I've actually had my Gmail since 2005 and have only been working as a YouTuber since 2015, so recently I've stopped using my Gmail for non-YouTube activities and transitioned my contact list over to my St. John's email. In other words my personal email became my business email and I want a 100% personal one again.

I could get a Yahoo or something but thought the St. John's email sounded better.[/quote]

Might be dumb question but can you have 2 different gmails? I have a gmail, yahoo (mostly fantasy sports related) and work email myself.[/quote]

Yes you can. Over the years I've created a couple different Gmails, but that said I prefer just using a separate email app entirely rather than a second Gmail. I also want to have a backup (non-Gmail) in case I ever have trouble logging into Gmail. Basically I just don't like putting all my eggs into one basket.

I've also used my St. John's email as a backup for a lot of websites since 2012. For example, most social media sites ask for 2 emails just in case you get locked out of one of them. For a lot of sites now I've started making my St. John's email my main email. Bad timing.

Honestly if St. John's needs to save server costs by erasing all their historical emails then that's not the end of the world, but they really needed to give us some notice. Just send out a mass email for those still using it in advance to give us time to prepare. They didn't even post this on their website after it happened (end of July). I had to spend hours on this and the IT guy said a lot of other alumni have called regarding it too.

He said they'll call back, so I hope at the very least I can regain access temporarily even if they ultimately close it back down again.
 
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Even when I am running my own server, I route email and recommend clients do the same through GSuite (Gmail). Running an email server is a PITA and it is one of the most vulnerable elements to your online presence and constantly under attack from bots. It can screw your organization big time if it gets compromised. You can setup any domain that you own to run through Google's GSuite (The email part of this is gmail). St. John's could do this and negotiate an education rate. Perhaps ask alumni for a fee to continue to use it? I think google is charging about $6 or 7 per month per user on Gsuite. But that includes the other apps and storage included with Gsuite. They probably charge educational institutions a lot less.

As far as having multiple accounts for your own use. If you are on a Mac I like two apps for this: Mailplane and Kiwi. There are tons of Windoze apps that do the same.
 
[quote="Paul Massell" post=395999]Even when I am running my own server, I route email and recommend clients do the same through GSuite (Gmail). Running an email server is a PITA and it is one of the most vulnerable elements to your online presence and constantly under attack from bots. It can screw your organization big time if it gets compromised. You can setup any domain that you own to run through Google's GSuite (The email part of this is gmail). St. John's could do this and negotiate an education rate. Perhaps ask alumni for a fee to continue to use it? I think google is charging about $6 or 7 per month per user on Gsuite. But that includes the other apps and storage included with Gsuite. They probably charge educational institutions a lot less.

As far as having multiple accounts for your own use. If you are on a Mac I like two apps for this: Mailplane and Kiwi. There are tons of Windoze apps that do the same.[/quote]

Yeah I'd be fine with paying a fee honestly, anything beside pulling the plug completely without notice. Really don't like how they've handled this. I'll probably set up a personal Proton Mail account, just wish I knew this before letting my contacts know and switching a bunch of my online accounts.

I use both Mac and Windows computers so I'll look into something that is cross platform. Thanks for the suggestions.
 
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