Alumni Association

Forwarding Instructions for Gmail

Step One: Create your alumni e-mail address

1. Go to PAN Online
2. Log In with your User Name and Password. Click Submit.
3. Click Email Forwarding – Create/Modify Account.
4. Choose Your New E-mail Address.
5. Enter Email address where mail will be forwarded (this is your current Gmail account)
6. Click Submit.

Step Two: Transfer emails from your student account into your Gmail account

This step is for recent graduates only. For those without a student e-mail account, proceed to step three.

1. Sign in to Gmail.
2. Click Settings and select the Accounts and Import tab.
3. Under “Check mail using POP3”, click Add POP3 email account.
4. In the “Email address” field, enter your student email address (yourname@pepperdine.edu) then click Next Step>>
5. Gmail will populate sample settings.
   1. Check to make sure your Username is correct (not your first and last name, your Wavenet username)
   2. Enter your Password (your Wavenet password)
   3. Check to make sure the server is pop.pepperdine.edu Port: 995
      In the same window, you will see the following selections:
      • Do not check: Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server.
      • Check: Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail.
      • If you want to assign a label to messages coming from your @alumni.pepperdine.edu account, Check: Label incoming messages
      • Do not check: Archive incoming messages (Skip the Inbox)
6. Click Add Account>>
7. The window will say “Your mail account has been added. You can now retrieve mail from this account.”
   
   You can stop here or proceed with the instructions to send mail from your @alumni.pepperdine.edu account.

Step Three: Send email from your @alumni.pepperdine.edu address

1. Sign in to Gmail.
2. Click Settings and select the Accounts and Import tab.
3. Under “Send mail as”, click Send mail from another address.
4. Under “Enter information about your other email address”, enter your Name and alumni forwarding e-mail address (yourname@alumni.pepperdine.edu).
5. Click Next Step >>
6. Choose: Send through Gmail
7. Click Next Step >> and then click Send Verification. Gmail will send a verification message to your @alumni.pepperdine.edu email address to confirm that you own it.
8. You will receive the verification email in your Gmail inbox. *This may take several hours*
9. Click the link in the message Gmail sent or enter the confirmation code in the “Accounts” section of your Gmail settings and click Verify.

Step Four: Send Mail

• To use a verified custom “From:” address when composing a new message, pick an address from the drop-down menu in the “From:” field.

• If you're replying or forwarding, click Change next to the “From:” field first.

• You can also choose to automatically use the address to which a message was sent in Settings.

 For personalized help, please contact the Pepperdine University Alumni Office at (310) 506-6190 or alumni@pepperdine.edu.