# Alumni Email Activity Requirement

**Source**: https://bconnected.berkeley.edu/services/alumni-email-service/alumni-email-activity-requirement
**Parent**: https://bconnected.berkeley.edu/services/alumni-email-service

As a security measure, basic measures of activity are tracked on alumni email accounts including login and sending email to ensure accounts are not abandoned. To meet the activity requirement you must:

1. [Log in to your Google account](https://mail.google.com/a/berkeley.edu) using your CalNet credentials at least once every 6 months.

If your account remains inactive:

- After 4 months of no measured activity, a notification will be sent to both your @berkeley.edu email and listed recovery email. You will then be required to reauthenticate your account to confirm it as active.
- After 5 months, a second notification will be sent to both your @berkeley.edu email and listed recovery email.
- After 6 months, your account will be disabled. Your account and all of its contents will be deleted.

*Note: Sending mail through your Gmail or third party email app can only be tracked for 30 days. Other types of activity like forwarding email to another account or using auto-reply messages cannot be tracked and does not register as account activity.*

## Topics

- [Alumni Email Changes topic page](/topics/alumni-email-changes)