Director's Report: DEBRIEF PART 2: Technical Details
and the Future

(Updated: Friday 5th March 5:00PM)

Alumni Announcements

Imperial War Museum, Duxford








On Saturday 19th June 2010 alumni, and their guests, are invited to join distinguished Cambridge speakers at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Europe's premier aviation museum. Tickets are priced at £50 per person and include admission to
the Imperial War Museum, parking, tours, lectures, lunch and light refreshments throughout the day. There is an option to attend this
event, but not participate in the guided tours. Tickets for this option
are £45 per person.

Limited Edition 800th Fountain Pen
Limited edition Onoto Pens are still available. These glamorous pens are being produced exclusively to celebrate the University’s 800th Anniversary year and can be customised with the appropriate College crest. These pens have been produced in strictly limited numbers, for more information see this page.

Stay connected through Facebook

Cambridge Alumni Relations Office has recently set up some groups on Facebook. Click here to join the Cambridge group, or here for the London group, or become a fan of CARO here!

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More Information

Shortly after you leave the University, your student @cam.ac.uk account will be terminated. Thereafter, you will be entitled to use the lifetime alumni email service provided by the Alumni Office.

Your address will look like:

your.name@cantab.net

As well as being a useful continuation of your University identity and an easy way to keep in touch with your peers, the address will also come in very useful in the next phase of your life:

The Independent: "A recent survey of HR managers by Yahoo! found that 51 per cent would be put off by a candidate who had a "wacky" e-mail address. Although a university e-mail account is perfectly acceptable, it may cause you problems on graduation, when the address expires."

Your cantab.net account will never expire.

Account Options

These email addresses have two account types - Webmail and Enhanced:

  • Webmail - A FREE FOR LIFE email account offering email forwarding and webmail-only access to a limited 10MB account. You can also use this service to forward your mail elsewhere.
  • A 1000MB option (the WebmailPLUS account), is also available for just £4.99/year.
  • Enhanced - A fully featured email service starting from 250MB (up to several GB) supporting full connectivity via POP3/IMAP/Mobile Phone/SMTP. After a long free trial period this account is maintained from just £4.99/year.
  • Personal webhosting can be added to all Enhanced account levels for £5.00/year.

The Alumni Relations Office generously sponsors the first 12 months' usage at the Enhanced-level of service for all leavers who register by 31st December of their leaving year, giving enough storage space to migrate university data and fully trial the service.

Applications from past alumni will receive 3 months' free Enhanced-level service.

A Quality Service

Cantab.net differentiates itself from the many public/free email services on the web by offering a higher quality email experience, uncluttered with distracting advertising and fully supported by a properly manned helpdesk.
Being a trusted, university provided service, you can be 100% sure that your privacy will always be completely respected, resulting in a noticeable absence of spam (provided of course you keep your address private yourself). Even if the address does get on the odd marketing list, our dedicated and user-configurable spam firewall captures the majority of junk.

You will receive exceptional customer service

The subscription amount, from just £4.99 per YEAR, is perhaps the smallest of any ad-free service and you should expect to rapidly recoup this value in terms of both the stress and time saved.

  • Expandable 250MB mailbox (up to several GBs)
  • Automatic emergency quota increase so that important emails are not returned when your mailbox is full.
  • Migrate your Cambridge contacts and messages.
  • Advanced SPAM Filtering
  • Virus and Worm filtering
  • Customised message filtering and highlighting
  • ZERO advertising in emails
  • Online Calendar
  • Organise messages into folders and subfolders
  • Webmail Access - Check your email anywhere.
  • POP/IMAP Access - for use with Eudora, Outlook, Mobile etc.
  • Consolidate your Email: pull down messages from other POP accounts
  • Redirection Services
  • Auto-reply / Vacation Messages
  • Quickly select ranges of emails to move or delete without having to 'tick' each box one by one.
  • No timeout period
  • EXCLUSIVE to Cambridge graduates.
  • A provider you can completely trust.


ROCK SOLID PRIVACY PROMISE -

We NEVER disclose your account details to third parties without your express authorisation.

Register your alumni email account.