Cornell capped storage rather than ending the address

Kept the address

Kept alumni Google accounts but capped storage at 5 GB. Accounts left over quota are deleted along with their contents, so the address survives but the mail in it may not.

What happened

Cornell kept alumni Google accounts and capped storage at 5 GB.

The caveat is real and worth stating plainly: accounts left over quota are deleted along with their contents. The address survives, but the mail in it may not. This is not a costless option and it is not presented as one here.

How this bears on the question

Cornell shows the storage-cost objection being answered with a storage cap. Duke switches off @alumni.duke.edu on January 31, 2027, and has announced no replacement address service.

Sources and further reading

This page is part of an independent record of university alumni email terminations, maintained by a Duke alum. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cornell or Duke University. Every row is sourced to the university’s own documentation where one exists, and this record has been corrected in public three times.

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