alumniemail.com

Source for alumniemail.com, a guide for universities on lifetime alumni email forwarding with Forward Email. The Forward Email team runs it. The site is not affiliated with the universities it names.

Pages

URL	Source	Purpose
/	content/index.md	Overview, benefits, case study figures, setup summary
/how-it-works/	content/how-it-works.md	MX and TXT records, aliases, SRS and ARC, API examples
/migrate-from-google-workspace-microsoft-365/	content/migrate-from-google-workspace-microsoft-365.md	Moving alumni accounts to forwarding
/cost-comparison/	content/cost-comparison.md	Sourced cost tables and a cost calculator
/case-study/	content/case-study.md	Summary of the Forward Email university case study
/faq/	content/faq.md	FAQ for university IT staff (with FAQPage JSON-LD)
/about/	content/about.md	Who runs the site, contacts, sources, privacy
/404.html	content/404.md	Not found page

How the site is built

GitHub Pages serves the committed files from the root of main. There is no build step in CI, so the generated HTML is committed.

scripts/build.js is a small Node.js script with no dependencies. It reads content/*.md and writes:

• index.html and <slug>/index.html for each page, plus 404.html
• <slug>/index.md, a clean Markdown copy of each page
• sitemap.xml, robots.txt, llms.txt, llms-full.txt and site.webmanifest
• css/style.min.css, minified from css/style.css

Each page gets the shared header, navigation and footer, canonical and Open Graph tags, and JSON-LD (Organization, WebSite, WebPage, BreadcrumbList, plus FAQPage, HowTo or Service where the page supports it).

Editing

1. Edit a file in content/ (or css/style.css).
2. Run node scripts/build.js (Node 18 or newer).
3. Commit the source and the generated files together.

Each content file starts with front matter:

---
title: Page title for search results (50 to 60 characters)
description: Meta description (about 120 to 140 characters)
h1: Visible page heading
lead: Opening sentence or two under the heading
nav: Label in the navigation (omit to leave the page out of the menu)
order: Position in the navigation
schema: FAQPage or AboutPage (optional)
howto: Name for HowTo JSON-LD built from a :::steps block (optional)
service: true to add the Service and Offer JSON-LD (optional)
scripts: /js/file.js (optional, comma separated)
---

The body uses a small Markdown subset: ## to #### headings, paragraphs, lists, tables (with an optional Table: caption line above), fenced code, **bold**, `code` and links. Each ## heading starts a new page section. These blocks are also available:

• :::cards with one ### heading per card. Add {icon=/images/svg/name.svg} after a heading for an icon.
• :::steps with one ### heading per numbered step.
• :::faq with one ### question per answer. On a page with schema: FAQPage these become FAQPage JSON-LD.
• :::note for a highlighted paragraph.
• :::buttons with one link per paragraph.

Lines that start with < are passed through as raw HTML and left out of the Markdown copies.

Facts and sources

Every claim about Forward Email must come from a page on forwardemail.net and link to it. University names and cost figures come from the Forward Email university case study. Do not add testimonials, logos or numbers that a source does not support.

Other files

• .well-known/security.txt: security contact. Update the Expires date before it passes.
• .nojekyll: tells GitHub Pages to serve files as they are, including .well-known/.
• fonts/: self-hosted Graduate and Montserrat (SIL Open Font License, see the OFL-*.txt files).
• images/: icons, the Open Graph image (og-image.jpg, 1200x630) and card illustrations.
• js/calculator.js: the only script, used by the cost calculator.

Privacy

The site sets no cookies and loads no analytics, trackers or third-party resources.