Configuring Email Services

Once your IC-PosGrad email account is active, you will need to change your email browser settings. If you use Netscape, Eudora or Outlook to access your accounts, use the following settings for your e-mail client:

Changing Email Client Settings

Outlook & Outlook Express - POP3 Setup

1. From the File menu choose Work Offline

2. Create a temporary folder to hold the messages in your Inbox to avoid duplicates when connecting to the new email server.

• From the File menu choose Folder > New
• Type in a name such as "old mail" and be sure that Local Folder (Outlook Express) or Personal Folders (Outlook) is highlighted. Click OK.
• Click on a message in your Inbox and choose Select All from the Edit menu.
• Right-click and choose Move to Folder.
• Select the temporary folder that you created and click OK.
• All of the mail in your Inbox will be moved to that folder, leaving the Inbox empty.

3. Click the Tools menu and select Accounts.

4. Click the Mail tab and highlight your IC-PosGrad (i.e. Laboratory) mail account.

5. Click the Properties button.

6. Click the Servers tab.

7. Under Server Information change the Incoming Mail field to pop.ic.uff.br as the Incoming Mail Server.

8. Change the Outgoing Mail field to smtp.ic.uff.br

9. Change your Account Name to your IC-PosGrad Username.

10.Change your Password to your IC-PosGrad Password.

11. Click the OK button when complete.

12. Mail sent to your IC-PosGrad account can now be downloaded to your Inbox (click the Send/Rcv button if you don't see it right away). Once you have confirmed that your mail has been received properly, you can remove the temporary folder that you created in Step 2.

Outlook & Outlook Express - IMAP Setup

1. From the File menu choose Work Offline.

2. Click the Tools menu and select Accounts.

3. Select the Mail tab and click the Add > Mail button.

4. Set up your new account

• Type in a Display Name, click Next.
• Email Address (you can use your username@ic.uff.br alias here), click Next.
• Select IMAP from the Incoming Mail Server pull-down menu.
• Type imap.ic.uff.br as the Incoming Mail Server.
• SMTP Server settings are: smtp.ic.uff.br .
• Click Next.
• Type in a Display Name, click Next

5. Your Account Name is your IC-PosGrad Lab username.

6. Your Password is your IC-PosGrad Lab password.

7. Click Next then Finish.

8. Click Close at the Internet Account window.

9. From the File menu choose Work Online.

10. You will now have your new IC-PosGrad account in the Folders column. Once you have checked your IC-PosGrad Inbox and folders to assure accuracy, you can remove the old email account (Tools menu, Mail Tab, highlight old account and click Remove).

Netscape 4.7* - POP3 Setup

1. If you are not sure whether you are currently using POP3 or IMAP, please check your preferences:

• From the Edit menu choose Preferences.
• Expand the Mail & Newsgroups category (double-click or click the + sign on left).
• Click Mail Servers.
• Click your IC-PosGrad account under Incoming Mail Server.
• Click Edit.

2. If your current mail server type is set to POP3, it is recommended that you uncheck the option to Check for mail every ** minutes so that Netscape does not check for messages until you complete the following steps. Click OK, then click OK again to close Preferences window.

3. We recommended carrying out the following steps in order to avoid having duplicate messages in your Inbox. Create a temporary folder:

• From the Netscape Messenger window choose New Folder from the File menu.
• Provide a Name such as Old Inbox, (you will be moving the messages currently in your Inbox into this folder).
• Leave the default > Create a subfolder of: Local Mail
• Click OK.

4. Move Inbox messages to your new temporary folder:

• Click on one of your messages in your Inbox and from the Edit menu choose Select > All Messages. You should see that all of your messages are now highlighted.
• Right-Click.
• Select Move Message.
• Select the folder that you just created. The messages that were in your Inbox should now be in the folder that you created and your Inbox will be empty.

5. Set your new Mail Server Preferences:

• Open your Mail Server Preferences as you did in Step 1.
• Change your Server Name to pop.ic.uff.br.
• Change your User Name to your IC-PosGrad Username.
• Check the box for Check for mail every ** minutes again.
• Change your Outgoing Server name to smtp.ic.uff.br .
• Click OK at Preferences window.

6. Netscape will now check your new IC-PosGrad account for your messages. Click the Get Msg icon. Once you have verified that all of your messages have been migrated successfully and are in your Inbox, you can remove the folder that you created in Step 3.

Netscape 4.7* - IMAP Setup

Pine - Windows Setup

1. You need connect to our server ssh.ic.uff.br using a ssh client (like putty.exe) and then configure your pine client to access our IMAP server . Follow steps to do it.

2. In order to configure your pine client to access our IMAP server, follow the Linux Setup instructions below.

Pine - UNIX Setup

1. If you are not logged on to one of the Laboratory machines, you need open a SSH connection to ssh.ic.uff.br.

2. You must be running Pine 4.30 or later.

3. Start up Pine.

4. From Pine's main menu:

• S) Setup
• C) Config
• Scroll down to "inbox-path"
• C) Change value
• Set it to "{imap.ic.uff.br/notls/noRsh/user=Your Username/novalidate-cert}INBOX"
• E) Exit setup
  
• Y) Yes, commit changes

5. Now quit Pine and run Pine again. You'll be prompted for your IC-PosGrad password. Pine will now access your INBOX via IMAP.

Pine users no longer need to be logged on to the mail server to read their mail, any laboratory unix machine will do.