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E-mail: Setting Up Your E-Mail Program

Generic Instructions for most clients:

These generic settings apply to all e-mail clients for ECN mailboxes:

Username and Password - Your ECN username and password. If you do not know your username or password, see Finding Your Password.
Type of Incoming Server - ECN supports IMAP server types.
Email Address - username@purdue.edu
Incoming (IMAP) Server - This should be the same as the location of your home directory and will take the form servername.ecn.purdue.edu. If you do not know the name of your server, please see Finding Your Server Name.
Root Folder/IMAP Namespace/IMAP Path Prefix: ~/mail
Outgoing (SMTP) Server - This should be set to smtp.purdue.edu
Security Settings - ECN requires you to configure some security settings.
- Incoming Server: SSL must be enabled. IMAP should use port 993.
- Outgoing Server: SSL must be enabled. SMTP should use port 587.
  - (Note: Some mail applications require TLS to be enabled rather than SSL. Try SSL first and if that doesn't work, go back and select TLS instead)
- Outgoing Server: Requires authentication using your ECN login and password.

If your mailbox is on...	and your computer is...	and you'd like to use...	then follow these instructions:
an ECN server	an ECN-maintained Windows desktop PC	Thunderbird version 2.x	Thunderbird for Windows IMAP Client Setup
an ECN server	a laptop, home computer, or self-supported on-campus PC	Thunderbird version 2.x	Thunderbird for Windows IMAP Client Setup
an ECN server	an ECN-maintained Windows desktop PC	Outlook 2007	Outlook should not be used; follow Thunderbird for Windows IMAP Client Setup instead
an ECN server	a laptop, home computer, or self-supported on-campus PC	Outlook 2007	Configure Outlook 2007 for IMAP to ECN
ITaP Exchange	an ECN-maintained Windows desktop PC	Thunderbird version 2.x	Please contact ECN to discuss your specific e-mail needs
ITaP Exchange	a laptop, home computer, or self-supported on-campus PC	Thunderbird version 2.x	ITaP's Thunderbird instructions; or follow ITaP's Outlook 2007 instructions for full Exchange functionality.
ITaP Exchange	an ECN-maintained Windows desktop PC	Outlook 2007 or 2010	Please contact ECN and ask us to run our Outlook setup script.
ITaP Exchange	a laptop, home computer, or self-supported on-campus PC	Outlook 2007	ITaP's Outlook 2007 instructions
ITaP Exchange	a laptop, home computer, or self-supported on-campus PC	Outlook 2010	ITaP's Outlook 2010 instructions

If your mailbox is on...	and your computer is...	and you'd like to use...	then follow these instructions:
an ECN server	a Macintosh	Apple Mail	Apple Mail IMAP Client Setup

ITaP Exchange	a Macintosh	Apple Mail	http://support.purdue.edu/goldanswers/195018

ITaP Exchange	a Macintosh	Outlook 2016	Outlook 2016 for Mac Exchange Client Setup

Additional documentation for other e-mail clients may be found in the ECN Knowledge Base here:

Last modified: 2020/01/15 17:03:29.447825 US/Eastern by sundeep.rao.1
Created: 2007/10/09 13:43:6.680000 GMT-4 by brian.r.brinegar.1.