Configuring Your Client: Outlook
This page contains instruction on how to setup the Outlook email client to check your chemistry department email from within the Chemistry Building.
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Instructions
1. Start Outlook. In the menu, click Tools, then E-mail Accounts…
2. To create a new email account, select Add and then Next
3. Select the IMAP, then click Next
4. Enter Your Name and Chemistry E-mail Address.
- Enter mail.chem.wisc.edu as the incoming server
- Enter smtp.chem.wisc.edu as the outgoing server
- Enter your Username and Password in the Logon Information section
- Click on More Settings...
5. Select the Advanced tab
- Check both "This server requires an SSL-secured connection (SSL)" checkboxes.
- Change Outgoing Server (SMTP): to 587.
- Note: You may need to enable the option "My outgoing (SMTP) server requires authentication" under the "Outgoing Server" tab if you have trouble sending emails outside the chemistry building.
- Click OK
6. Click OK and then Finish. Your account is now configured to send and receive mail.
