E-Mail Set Up for Internet Explorer and Netscape Mail

  1. Internet Explorer

    2. If you are starting MS Outlook for the first time, it will begin a wizard to set up your email account. If this does not happen, you will have to configure the account manually.

    1. Pull down the Tools menu.
    2. Select Accounts.
    3. Select Mail tab.
    4. Remove any item that may be listed.
    5. Click the Add button and select Mail.
    6. Enter your name in Display Name.
    7. Click Next.
    8. Fill in your campus Email address: <Internet ID>@umn.edu (ie: user1234@umn.edu)
    9. Click Next.
    10. For My incoming mail server is a....select POP3
    11. for Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server, put your email server, which is x.500.email.umn.edu
    12. Place smtp-gw.tc.umn.edu in the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server location.
    13. Click Next
    14. Enter the Account name. This is your x.500 ID.
    15. Enter your x.500 password.
    16. Do NOT select Log on using secure Password Authentification (SPA).
    17. Click Next.
    18. Click Finish.

    Using Outlook Express

    You are now ready to send and receive mail using Outlook Express. To view any new messages, you will need to press the Send and Receive button, or pull down the Tools and select Send and Receive. Your messages will appear in the Inbox.

    To send a message, you can press the New Mail button, or pull down the File menu and select New and Mail message. This will open an untitled mail sender window. You can compose email messages from this location.

    To use the address book when you are in the Sender, you can double-click on the icon next to the desired field (To:, CC:, etc.). This will list the items in your personal address book.

    To search the University of Minnesota on-line directory, pull down the Edit menu, and select Find, the People, then select the x.500 directory for Look in.

  2. Netscape Mail

    1. Pull down the Edit menu.
    2. Select Preferences.
    3. Select the Identity under Mail & Newsgroups.
    4. Fill in your Name
    5. Fill in your Email as <Internet ID>@tc.umn.edu (ie: user1234@tc.umn.edu).
    6. Place the same address you just keyed in the Reply-to field.
    7. Fill in the Organization as University of Minnesota.
    8. Click on Mail Servers.
    9. Enter the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server as smtp-gw.tc.umn.edu
    10. Enter the Outgoing mail server username as your University x.500 ID (ie: user1234).
    11. Check Never for Use Secure Socket Layer(SSL).
    12. Select the item in the Incoming Mail Servers box (If empty, press the add button).
    13. Enter the Server Name which is your mail server of: <Internet ID>.email.umn.edu
    14. Enter the User Name as your x.500 ID
    15. Select the server type: POP
    16. Select the POP tab.
    17. Check the desired options.
    18. Click OK.

    You are now ready to send and receive mail using Netscape Communicator. To view any new messages, you will need to first start Netscape Messenger. You can do this my pulling down the Communicator menu and selecting Messenger. This action will automatically try to fetch any new mail. Alternatively, if you wish to manually check for new messages, you can press the Get Msg button at the top of the toolbar, or pull down File and select Get New Messages. Your messages will appear in the Inbox.

    To send a message, you can press the New buttom at the top of the toolbar, or pull down the File menu and select New and Message. This will open a Send Mail:Message Composition window. You can compose e-mail message from this location.

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