Sending mail using Microsoft Outlook (NOT Express) from off campus using vpn.mines.edu
- This Tutorial assumes that you have set up receiving Mines e-mail from off campus.
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Open Outlook and select Tools -> E-mail Accounts... as in Figure 1.
Figure 1 -
Select "View or change existing e-mail accounts" and click "Next" as in Figure 2.
Figure 2 -
Select your mines.edu account and click "Change"
Figure 3 - IMAP and POP are two different ways of receiving mail, there are subtle differences between these two ways, but they don't differ when sending mail.
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Fill in the information as shown in figure 4.
Figure 4 - Most of this information stays the same.
- Outgoing mail server is the most important setting for this procedure.
- Then click More Settings.
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Select the "Outgoing Server" tab
Figure 5 - Check "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication"
- Click on the radio dial "Use same settings as my incoming mail server"
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Select the "Advanced" tab
Figure 6 - Check "This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)" for both Incoming and Outgoing servers.
- Change the port for Outgoing server(SMTP) to be "988"
- Click OK
- That is it, Click "Next" and "Finish" and you should be able to send any newly composed email via the vpn.
- Note: messages in the outbox will have to be recomposed or sent using other means. Microsoft has already hard coded what email server to use for those messages.
Questions and comments -- open a ticket at the Mines Help Center
Thursday, 13-Sep-2007 09:48:18 MDT