Instructions on how to setup the POP protocol to access your School of Engineering E-Mail
With the availability of the UITS VPN client, the following should only be used by individuals not using Outlook or Entourage as their email client.
The third and least recommended solution for E-Mail is to POP your email off of the server. This method has the greatest possibility of you losing E-Mail as it is permanently removed off the server via this protocol.
Type your name as you want it to occur in the Your name field.
Type your engineering email address in the E-Mail Address field
For on campus and off-campus use mailhost.engr.uconn.edu in both the Incoming and Outgoing mail server fields [Note: Some ISPs such as Yahoo/SBC will block the outgoing smtp port. If you are using this service provider, you can use the ISPs SMTP server for the outgoing mailserver, this is called spoofing.
Click OK
Click Next, then Finish, and finally OK to complete the wizard.
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