Configuring Your Client: Outlook Express
This page contains instruction on how to setup the Outlook Express email client to check your chemistry department email from within the Chemistry Building.
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Instructions
1. Start Outlook Express. In the menu, click Tools, then Accounts…
2. To create a new email account, click Add and then Mail…
3. Enter your name, then click Next
4. Enter your @chem.wisc.edu email address, then click Next
5. Select IMAP from the drop down box, enter the mail.chem.wisc.edu as the incoming server, and enter smtp.chem.wisc.edu as the outgoing server, then click Next
6. Enter your Chemistry Email Username and Password, then click Next
7. Click Finish
8. Same as before, on the outlook menu bar, click Tools, then Accounts…
- Select your chemistry email account and click properties on the right
9. Select the Advanced tab
- Check both "This server requires an SSL-secured connection (SSL)" checkboxes.
- Change Outgoing mail (SMTP): to 587.
- Click OK
- Click Close
