Setting Up E-Mail from Home
Step 1
Download an e-mail program:
Note: The free Microsoft Outlook
Express will not work with secure IMAP, so you cannot
use it unless you dial-in to ISU. The normal (full) version of
Outlook that you pay for works just fine.
Step 2
Setup the client to use OTC as the secure IMAP server. Instructions
for how to do this with Netscape 4 are below:
Open up the preferences by selecting Edit->Preferences, then
highlight the "Mail Servers" tab as shown above. Click
on the "Add" button on the right to create a new mail
server.
Step 3
Fill in the "General" settings as shown above, substituting
"yourusernamegoeshere" with your real username (this
is not your password, but rather is usually the first four
letters of your last name joined with the first four letters of
your first name -- contact
the technology team if you are unsure).
Step 4
Fill in the "IMAP" settings as shown above.
Step 5
Fill in the "Advanced" settings as shown above.
Step 6
Click "OK" to close the current window.
Make sure your settings look similiar to those shown above.
Important note about the Outgoing mail
(SMTP) server: If you are dialing in to
ISU, or if you are connecting to the Pocatello or Idaho Falls
wireless networks, then you need to put "otc.isu.edu"
in the outgoing mail server (as shown above). If, however, you
are not dialing in to ISU then you will need to find out
what your service provider's SMTP server is, and name it here
-- otc.isu.edu will not work from such connections, but
your service provider's SMTP server will work just fine for sending
out mail. If this option is not setup correctly, you will still
be able to read your mail just fine, but you will be unable to
send mail.
Step 7
Make sure your "Identity" section
on the left is setup to your liking, then close the preferences
window and try it out.
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