Setting up Email for Internet Explorer

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.

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