Setting Up and Using
Microsoft Entourage: MAC v. 10.4 - IMAP Settings
Electronic mail, or "e-mail," has
become an indispensable tool for intra- and inter-office
communication. It allows computers to send messages to people all
over the world, as well as Trinity students, faculty and staff.
Entourage is used in reading, storing, and
sending e-mail messages over the Internet and it
is designed for Macintosh users. These pages provide
information on how to set up
Entourage for your use.
E-mail Accounts and Passwords
Both faculty and staff should know
their NT account, password, and e-mail address. If you
don't already have this info please call the 2100 Help Desk.
INFORMATION
YOU'LL NEED BEFORE YOU BEGIN
E-mail
Username:__________________________________________________
E-mail
Password:__________________________________________________
E-mail
Address:___________________________________________________
Part I: Configuring
Entourage
Before you can
get your Trinity email using Entourage you must configure it
properly with your personal information. The following steps should
demonstrate how to setup the program for basic email use.
When you open
the Entourage you should be able to find Tools in the main
menu on the top of the program. Under the Tools menu select
Accounts. Following window will open for you. If you have
used Entourage before to receive some other email, you might see
email accounts listed in this window, but if you never used it the
list will be empty.
Click on the
New button and additional window will open enabling you to
start configuring you new email account. Trinity uses IMAP servers
to provide email service, therefore in the New Account window
for Account type select IMAP. Click OK button.
At this point
the Entourage has created new email account for you and now you just
have to put your information and information about the server in
order to start receiving your email. After you clicked OK in the
previous step the following window will open for you.
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First enter the Account name. This
really does not matter. The account name can be anything that
will remind you that this is account for Trinity email.
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You should check the box "Include this
account in my Send & Receive All schedule". By checking this box
you will make sure that whenever you click Send and Receive the
Entourage will make sure to check you Trinity email account.
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Under Personal information section you
should enter following. In the field titled Name ,
enter the name you would like others to see on mail from you.
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On the next line,
type your e-mail address (so that others know where to
send e-mail for you). This is almost always in the form of
firstname.lastname@trincoll.edu (or firstname.lastname@mail.trincoll.edu
- it doesn't matter). Thus Jack Kerouac's e-mail address would
be John.Kerouac@trincoll.edu.
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Now you have to fill out Receiving mail
information. First item is for your
Account ID (or username).
The login name is in the following format: "cmpcntr\username\firstname.lastname".
You have been provided with username
when you first got your e-mail account activated.
It is usually the first letter of your firstname, followed by up
to seven letters of your last name. (e.g. Jack Kerouac becomes
jkerouac, so he has to enter "cmpcntr\jkerouac\jack.kerouac",
but Allen Ginsberg becomes aginsber and he
has to enter "cmpcntr\aginsber\allen.ginsberg"). It is
important that all usernames be
supplied in lower case. These (as well as
passwords) are case sensitive:
Epound is not the same as epound. Some people will also have
numbers attached at the end of their username (to distinguish
all the jsmiths for example). Also remember to type the domain
name cmpcntr\ before your
username and \firstname.lastname after
it.
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The next line
prompts for the IMAP server.
This is the computer your mail is stored at when it arrives.
The name
of this server is imap.trincoll.edu.
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Next line provides you with the field for the
Password. You can enter your password and save it on your
computer or you can leave it blank and type the password every
time you open Entourage to check you mail.
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Now enter the Sending mail
information. Actually you only need to enter the name of
the outgoing mail server, i.e. the computer that sends
your mail out into the world (also known as the SMTP server).
This line should read asmtp.trincoll.edu.
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Next, click on the advanced sending options button.
It brings up the following window. Check the box that says
Override default SMTP port and set the port to 587, as shown
below. Check the box that says SMTP server requires
authentication and choose the "Use same setting as
receiving mail server" option. Press the small box in the
upper left hand corner to close the window.
After you have entered all this information click OK.
For
more information:
You can contact the Help Desk by visiting the
desk on B level of the LITC or calling x2100 (faculty and staff) or
x2007 (students).
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Last Modified:
10/02/2007
