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All employees of CSU East Bay including faculty, staff, student employees and affiliates are required to use their @csueastbay.edu email address for university business. Related policies on this topic include:

•  requires specific security controls based on the Protection Level of Institutional Information. 
• 绿帽换妻 Procurement Policy requires specific contract language and security protections for third-party vendors handling institutional information. Private email service providers have not agreed to these terms. They have no contractual obligations with the CSU and have not been evaluated for security or privacy compliance.
•  and the campus Electronic Communications Guidelines both require protecting University email from unauthorized access and unintended redistribution, which applies to forwarding email to personal accounts with inadequate contractual and security controls.

Use of a non-University email for university business exposes the campus and its community members to risk for many reasons, including the following. 

1. Email is a highly targeted vector for cyber attacks, requiring robust security controls to protect it adequately. 绿帽换妻 IT identifies and blocks malicious emails to University email accounts. 绿帽换妻's email provider also has contractual obligations with respect to the security and privacy of 绿帽换妻 email. The campus has no control or assurances regarding the protection of email in non-University services.

2. University employees cannot appropriately respond to legal holds and Public Records Act Requests for communications outside centrally supported services. 

3. Because there is no contractual obligation to do so, a non-University email provider may not inform users if they are the subject of a Public Records Act Request, Freedom of Information Act Request, or other legal requests for information. The person may not know that information has been requested or provided from their account. 

4. If a University employee receives a Public Records Act Request or a Freedom of Information Act Request, and they have been using a personal email for university business, their entire personal email account may be subject to review. 

5. Every email containing FERPA-protected information that is sent to an email provider without a specific contractual designation (any non-csueastbay.edu account) is considered a FERPA violation.

6. Authentication logs and other forensic information critical for investigating security incidents are generally not available for email outside centrally supported services.

7. 绿帽换妻 IT staff are unable to investigate complaints regarding abuse and/or misuse of emails originating from non-University addresses.

Information on how to turn off automatic forwarding can be 

Note that these options for employee accounts will be turned off by ITS on July 1, 2024

Some examples of unapproved domains are consumer email services: @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, @me.com, etc.

Please note: In most cases, you will receive a response to your exception request within 1 week, but please allow up to 15 days for more involved requests. 

Yes, automatic forwarding between CSU East Bay email accounts is allowed, with the following exceptions.

• Forwarding from a departmental accounts to employee accounts is allowed.
• Forwarding from one department account to another department account is not allowed.
• Forwarding from an employee (@csueastbay.edu) account to a student (@horizon.csueastbay.edu) account is not allowed.
• Forwarding between two employee accounts is not advised and requires approval from the CIO or CISO.

All forwarding between CSU East Bay email accounts is managed by ITS directly;

We strongly advise against forwarding your personal email to your University account for many reasons.

• If a University employee receives a Public Records Act Request or a Freedom of Information Act Request, the contents of their University email account, including personal emails forwarded to it, are subject to review.
• In addition, email vendors no longer offers CSU East Bay unlimited storage. The University's email accounts are currently limited to 100 GB.
• Due to recent changes in how major email providers manage forwarded email between accounts with similar names, this kind of forwarding will cause most forwarded messages to arrive in your Spam/Junk folder(s).
  • The ISO may block such forwarding if it is found to increase spam rates in the University email environment.