FAQs @intelretiree.com Email Forwarder

The @intelretiree.com email address functions as an email forwarder. Any email addressed to your @intelretiree.com email address should be forwarded to the personal email address that you used when you joined the Intel Retiree Organization (IRO.) Since the very basic forwarder service we use has very unreliable delivery, we have decided to no longer issue intelretiree.com forwarder email addresses.

You were issued a forwarder email address if you joined IRO before 9/1/2026. Since the very basic forwarder service we use has very unreliable delivery, we have decided to no longer issue intelretiree.com forwarder email addresses. We will end of life existing forwarder addresses Q1, 2027 (March 31, 2027), so contact your accounts where you use the forwarder address and switch to another email address.

The address, ending in @intelretiree.com, validated you as an official retiree for the now discontinued McAfee subscription.

We had also suggested you could use this email forwarder address to interact with volunteer organizations. With the increase of mailing scams, email service providers have set up complex and changing mail delivery rules that may reject mail routed through a forwarder – with no notice to the sender or receiver. That is why we are winding down the intelretiree.com forwarder service.

You need to change your email with IRO before we send emails to your old email and they bounce. If our email to you is rejected by your email provider, your membership will be revoked, the forwarder removed, and you will be archived in our system.

To change your email address with IRO, send an email including your WWID, your old email address, and your new email address to the IRO mailbox at intelretiree@gmail.com. We will update your email address for IRO mailings and your existing @intelretiree.com email forwarder will point to the new address. We cannot update your email if you have been removed from the system due to your email bouncing. You will need to re-apply and get verified as an official retiree in that case.

No. Your IRO-issued email address can only be used to receive emails. Note that if you reply, your reply will be sent from your personal email – this is not an alia email that hides your personal email address.

If someone uses your @intelretiree.com email address, the email is sent to the Internet server that hosts the IRO website. This server will forward the mail to the personal email address that you used when you registered with the IRO. Assuming this email address is still current, the email that was originally sent to your @intelretiree.com address will then make its way to the inbox of your personal email address. SENDERS should observe the CASE and form of your email address exactly as assigned for your email to be quickly and reliably forwarded. Even if your email provider will let you add a dot (“.”), or plus (“+”), the spam and phishing filters they use cause problems when they receive email that detours through a forwarder.

For the most part, you cannot test whether your @intelretiree.com email address is working by sending from the address you are forwarding to. Most of the time, you need to use a different email address to test your @intelretiree.com email forwarder – several mail services (gmail for instance) can not route a mail sent to what is really itself. If you have another email address besides what the forwarder sends to (for example, from your cell phone or internet provider might give you an email account), send from that other email account, or ask a family member or friend to send you an email at your @intelretiree.com email. If you do not see it, check your junk mail folder as well. SENDERS should observe the CASE of your email address exactly as assigned for your email to be quickly and reliably forwarded

If you are unable to confirm your @intelretiree.com email address, send an email to us at Intelretiree@gmail.com, and we will tell you your @intelretiree.com email address.

Email us at intelretiree@gmail.com for additional help