Timeline:

IT department will order the change of your account from a Campus account to a Faculty account.

Once this change has been made, you will have 14 days to follow the steps listed below before your current Campus account will be terminated.

• What you need to do during these 14 days:

  • Your Faculty Account will be a new account, so after the 15 of September you will receive a letter to activate this new account. This letter will be sent by ID (University Computer Services) to the secretary of your institute.

    It is important that you receive the letter and activate your account as soon as possible to be able to configure the "forwarding rule" and "automatic reply" on your old Campus Account mailbox before the 14 days expire.

• Receiving the activation letter and activate you new Faculty account.

  • The letter can be sent to you by post, or you can collect it from the Institute's secretariat. If you live far away from Bern, or even abroad, please send us an email giving us permission to open your activation letter and send you the scanned version of the letter by email to avoid long delays due to postal delivery.
  • Once you have received the letter, please activate your new faculty account as soon as possible by following the instructions on the activation letter.
  • The activation letter will look similar to the one below:

  

Backup of your E-Mails

• As explained above, your account will remain active for 14 days after we order your new Faculty account. If you activated your new Faculty account , you can simply forward important messages from your old campus account to your new faculty account. Please note that by forwarding your old messages to the new Faculty account, the original messages will appear in the faculty account mailbox with the date you forwarded them, rather than the original date they were received in your old campus account.

• Whether or not you already activated your new Faculty Account, you can make a backup of your old messages from your old Campus Account anytime before the expiration date (14 Days after the order of your Faculty account) using Thunderbird.

• How to do a backup using Thunderbird?

  • The best way to back up your old emails is to install Thunderbird and copy your emails from your old Campus account from the university server to a local folder in Thunderbird on your computer. This will ensure that your messages are readable offline in your computer using Thunderbird.

Backup process with Thunderbird (for Mac and Windows)

• Download and Install Thunderbird
• Configure your Campus Account using IMAP as shown below.
• Enter your name and email address (from your campus account), then click Continue.