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Email at Mount Holyoke College
Email address
Your email address is your
login/username followed by the College domain name.
Thus if your username were "smith", your email address
would be:
smith@mtholyoke.edu
Display name
Most email clients allow you to set a display name
for your email messages so that your recipients can see
your full name. In the above example,
the name may appear in a message like:
From: "Jonathan D. Smith" <smith@mtholyoke.edu>
Note—messages without display names are more likely to
be treated as spam.
College email
This is your official College email address. This is the address
the College will use to send you important information.
- You should check your email regularly
- You should not let your INBOX fill up and go over
your disk space limit (quota). An over quota INBOX prevents
email from being delivered.
Using other email addresses and forwarding
You may choose to use another email address instead of the one
provided by the College. If you do so, please
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Forward your college email to your alternate email address.
You can set up a forwarding address in the Webshell section
of Webmail at
https://webmail.mtholyoke.edu/ .
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When sending messages from a non-College email address
to College personnel for business
or academic purposes, please include your login/username
at the top of the message.
Email programs
The email system works with numerous email client programs based on
IMAP (preferred) or POP (not recommended). Commonly used email clients
are:
For those versed in UNIX/Linux, we provide shell access to run pine, a text-based
email program (faster but less friendly to attachments).
Setup of desktop email clients
This section is not designed to offer complete documentation on setting
up desktop email clients, but does address specific parameters that tend
to be common to all.
| IMAP or POP
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We strongly recommend IMAP. Avoid POP unless you
are experienced with it.
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| Incoming mail server name
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mail.mtholyoke.edu
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| Secure connection and port
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SSL for secure connection on port 993
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| IMAP server directory
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mail
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| Outgoing SMTP server and port
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smtp.mtholyoke.edu on port 25
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| For off-campus setup only
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For security reasons,
in order to send
email through our outgoing SMTP server from off-campus,
the email program
needs to authenticate itself and set up a secure connection.
The outgoing SMTP setup should specify
"TLS" for the secure connection type. (This should not
be done for on-campus configurations.)
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| A note on names and addresses
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There are three kinds of names you might encounter
in the setup procedure:
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