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Forwarding Instructions for windows live hotmail

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 Live, MSN, or Hotmail account)
  6. Click Submit.

Step Two: Transfer emails from your student account into your Windows Live account

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

  1. Sign in to Windows Live Hotmail.
  2. On the Action bar at the top right of the page, click Options, and then select More options.
  3. Under “Manage your account”, click Send and receive mail from other e-mail accounts.
  4. Under “You can receive mail from these accounts”, click Add an e-mail account.
  5. Click Advanced options.
    • Enter your @alumni.pepperdine.edu email address
    • POP3 username: (your Wavenet username)
    • Password: (your Wavenet password)
    • Incoming mail server: pop.pepperdine.edu
    • Port: 995
    • Check: This server requires a secure connection (SSL)
    • Do not check: Leave a copy of my messages on the server
  6. Click Next.
  7. Select the whether you want your incoming mail to go in a folder or your inbox and what color you would like unread messages to appear, and click Save.
  8. Click Go to Inbox.
  9. You will receive the Windows Live Hotmail: Verify your e-mail address email in your Hotmail inbox. *This may take several hours* 
  10. Click the link in the message Hotmail sent to verify your @alumni.pepperdine.edu address
  11. Click Return to inbox.

Notes

  • Only some users, including users who have a paid subscription to Windows Live Hotmail, can add a POP3 account to their Windows Live Hotmail account.
  • Paying Windows Live Hotmail users can add up to four POP3 accounts.
  • The maximum size of an e-mail message that you can download is 15 MB. Messages that are larger than 15 MB won't be downloaded.
  • You can download 50 messages at a time. If you have to download more than 50 messages, you must download 50 of them at a time.

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

  1. Sign in to the Windows Live Hotmail.
  2. Open your Inbox by clicking Mail.
  3. On the Action bar at the top left of the page, click New.
  4. Next to the “From” box, click the arrow ↓, and then click your alumni forwarding email address (yourname@alumni.pepperdine.edu).
  5. Complete your email message, and then click Send.
Notes
  • When you send mail from a different address in Windows Live Hotmail, the e-mail recipient may receive information that's similar to the following: "From: ‘your Windows Live Hotmail e-mail address' on behalf of yourname@alumni.pepperdine.edu"

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