LEFA (Lifelong Email Forwarding Address)
ITS is pleased to offer all J.D. and LL.M. students with an additional email account. Called a LEFA ("leaf-a"), or lifelong email forwarding address, this email account will make it easier for you to stay connected to your classmates and everyone else in the HLS community.
You can immediately begin using your LEFA account to send and receive email (configuration instructions below), although your existing @law address will also work through July 31st of the year you graduate. Your LEFA will not expire, but instead will become a forward only account that can be used to send email to an alternate email address (e.g. Yahoo or Gmail).
The new email address naming scheme will be:
- USERNAME@jdXX.law.harvard.edu (with XX being the graduating year) or
- USERNAME@llmXX.law.harvard.edu (with XX being the graduating year)
However, when you access HLS network resources (including your e-mail), you will use the following username scheme for your HLS Account:
- USERNAME.jdXX (with XX being the graduating year) or
- USERNAME.llmXX (with XX being the graduating year)
Adding Your New Email Address to the MyMail Web Client
NOTE: When you configure MyMail with your new email address, you will be able to SEND AND RECEIVE email from both your new email address and your @law email address (i.e. rharvard@jd10.law.harvard.edu and rharvard@law.harvard.edu).
- Visit https://mymail.law.harvard.edu/ and log in with your username and password.
- Click OPTIONS located on the top -right of the page.
- Select Identities & Aliases. Your new email address will be listed under Identity/Alias.
- Click Edit.
- Type your name as you would like it to appear when a message is received from you. To make this your default sending address click the “On” radio button and click Save.
- If you need to make any changes to the name click edit again.
- To change between email addresses, click on the down arrow next to From for a list of both names.
Adding your New Email Address to Outlook
NOTE: When you configure your new email address within Outlook, you will no longer be able to SEND emails from your @law account. You will however, continue to RECEIVE emails that are sent to your @law address.
- On the Tools menu, click E-mail Accounts.
- Click View or change existing e-mail accounts and then click Next.
- Select your account (most likely named “pop.students.law.harvard.edu”) and then click Change.
- Under E-mail address, type your new email address .
- Click Next.
- Click Finish.
Adding your New Email Address to Entourage
NOTE: When you configure your new email address within Entourage, you will no longer be able to SEND emails from your @law account. You will however, continue to RECEIVE emails that are sent to your @law address.
- Open Entourage.
- From the Entourage menu bar click Entourage and then select Account Settings. The Account dialog box opens.
- Confirm you are on the Mail tab.
- Click HLS Account and click Edit.
- When the Edit Account dialog opens change the E-mail address from your old address to your new address. For example change rharvard@law.harvard.edu to rharvard@jd10.law.harvard.edu.
- After updating the e-mail address you may now close the dialog box.
- Click OK to close the dialog and save your changes.
Adding your New Email Address to Apple Mail
NOTE: When you configure your new email address within Apple Mail, you will no longer be able to SEND emails from your @law account. You will however, continue to RECEIVE emails that are sent to your @law address.
- Open Apple Mail.
- From the Apple Mail menu bar click Mail and then Preferences.
- A new dialog box opens.
- Choose the Accounts tab.
- Then choose the Account Information tab. On the Account Information tab change the Email Address from your current email address to your new email address (e.g. rharvard@law.harvard.edu to rharvard@jd10.law.harvard.edu).
- After updating the e-mail address you may now close the dialog box.
- Apple Mail will now ask if you would like to save your changes. Click Save.
