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| ====== Mail Settings ====== | ====== Mail Settings ====== | ||
| - | ===== Important mail settings ===== | + | These are the essential settings for most mail programs (the terminology may vary within different programs). We have some specific help for configuring Thunderbird, |
| - | These are the essential settings for most mail programs (the terminology may vary within different programs). We have some specific help for configuring Thunderbird, | + | |
| - | ==== Incoming mail ==== | + | If you don't want to set up a mail program, here's the link to our webmail system: http:// |
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| + | ===== Incoming mail ===== | ||
| Summary of settings: | Summary of settings: | ||
| * Mail server type: IMAP | * Mail server type: IMAP | ||
| * Server name: mail.physics.umn.edu | * Server name: mail.physics.umn.edu | ||
| - | * Use secure connection (SSL) | + | * Use secure connection (SSL) on port 993 |
| - | * Port 993 | + | * //or you can choose StartTLS on port 143// |
| + | * Authentication method: Normal password | ||
| + | * //note, thunderbird usually auto-detects this incorrectly as " | ||
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| + | ===== Outgoing mail ===== | ||
| - | ==== Outgoing | + | For outgoing |
| - | For outgoing mail, you can either | + | If you want to use the Physics server for outgoing messages, here are brief directions |
| - | === Physics settings: === | + | ==== Physics settings |
| * Server name: mail.physics.umn.edu | * Server name: mail.physics.umn.edu | ||
| * Select " | * Select " | ||
| + | * Authentication method: Normal password | ||
| * Port 587 | * Port 587 | ||
| * Use Physics username and password | * Use Physics username and password | ||